The Reunification of Germany, 1990 by Seth Heaps https://padlet.com/sheaps/isnlvvbfxhr7 World Human Geography, Grade 10 en-us 2018-03-28 02:16:06 UTC 2024-10-01 12:32:48 UTC hello@padlet.com Standard: sheaps https://padlet.com/sheaps/isnlvvbfxhr7/wish/246744319 OAS World Human Geography, Grades 9-12

Standard 4.4 - The student will evaluate
specific textual and visual evidence to explain
the political organization of space. The student will examine changes and challenges to political/territorial
arrangements, the changing nature of sovereignty, and
evolution of contemporary political patterns.

]]> 2018-03-28 02:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sheaps/isnlvvbfxhr7/wish/246744319 Learning Objectives sheaps https://padlet.com/sheaps/isnlvvbfxhr7/wish/246744936 Students will be able to answer the following questions: 1) How and why are political boundaries drawn and enforced? and 2) How do political and social tensions affect the movements of populations? ]]> 2018-03-28 02:29:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sheaps/isnlvvbfxhr7/wish/246744936 Berlin Wall guards in front of the Brandenburg Gate, 1986 sheaps https://padlet.com/sheaps/isnlvvbfxhr7/wish/246746796 "Attention! You are now leaving West Berlin"]]> 2018-03-28 02:41:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sheaps/isnlvvbfxhr7/wish/246746796 A crowd gathers as the Berlin Wall is declared "open," 1989 sheaps https://padlet.com/sheaps/isnlvvbfxhr7/wish/246747269 Click here for a video of this]]> 2018-03-28 02:44:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sheaps/isnlvvbfxhr7/wish/246747269 Satellite image of the Brandenburg Gate sheaps https://padlet.com/sheaps/isnlvvbfxhr7/wish/246749166 2018-03-28 02:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sheaps/isnlvvbfxhr7/wish/246749166 sheaps https://padlet.com/sheaps/isnlvvbfxhr7/wish/246749350 2018-03-28 02:59:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sheaps/isnlvvbfxhr7/wish/246749350 The Iron Curtain in Europe sheaps https://padlet.com/sheaps/isnlvvbfxhr7/wish/246749632 What is a satellite state?]]> 2018-03-28 03:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sheaps/isnlvvbfxhr7/wish/246749632 Erich Honecker, leader of East Germany sheaps https://padlet.com/sheaps/isnlvvbfxhr7/wish/246750315 Click here for a speech Honecker gave in 1989, shortly before the Berlin Wall fell]]> 2018-03-28 03:07:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sheaps/isnlvvbfxhr7/wish/246750315 Outline of Events sheaps https://padlet.com/sheaps/isnlvvbfxhr7/wish/246751565 Gorbachev’s reforms allowed free elections in Hungary, 1989
  1. Soviet Union relaxes control of satellite states
 
Hungary took down its border fence to Austria in June 1989
  1. Find the Austria/Hungary border 
 
East German “tourists” walk across Austrian border
  1. East Germans are able to move freely between Soviet satellite states, and use the opportunity to cross over into the West
 
East German government forces Hungary to rebuild their border fence
  1. How does the Berlin Wall compare to modern border walls in Europe (think: Schengen Zone) and the proposed border wall between the US and Mexico? 
 
Mass protests erupt in East Germany, Gorbachev refuses to stop protests
 
Honecker resigns in October 1989, new government removes travel restrictions to the West
 
East Germans tear down Berlin Wall in November 1989, guards can do nothing to stop them
 
500,000 East Germans move to West Germany
  1. This causes tensions, such as overcrowding
 
Communist Party in East Germany collapses
 
Germany is reunified on October 3, 1990 
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