Primary
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Wilson Center: Berlin Wall

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about the history of the Berlin Wall through this collection of documents. The documents begin with the conditions in Berlin and East Germany before it was built all the way to the wall being torn down in 1989.
Interactive
Other

Twinity: The Berlin Wall

For Students 9th - 10th
Re-visit the 20th anniversary of the downfall of communism in Eastern Germany with this virtual walk back in time of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Discover how and why the wall was erected and the way in which it came down. Then learn how...
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall

For Students 9th - 10th
Konrad H. Jarausch details the history of the Berlin Wall.
Website
Other

Chris De Wiff: Berlin Wall Page

For Students 9th - 10th
Chris De Wiff's Berlin Wall Web page guides students through a virtual tour of Berlin's history. See photos of Berlin's past and present. It includes essays and extended links for further research about Berlin's divided past.
PPT
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: The Fall of the Wall: Revelation Not Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographic and video discussion attempts to answer the question "Why Did the Berlin Wall Fall in November 1989?"
Article
Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Notes on the Berlin Wall, 1961

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, which is provided for by the Fordham University, gives the actual text of the United States' note to the USSR on Berlin and the Soviet reply.
Website
Mother Earth Travel

Mother Earth Travel: Opening of the Berlin Wall and Unification

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the events of 1989 through 1990 that involved both East and West Germany to tear down the Berlin Wall and become unified as one nation.
Interactive
Other

The Berlin Wall

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive presentation of the Berlin Wall. Images and information provides a good overview of why the wall was put up and why it eventually came down.
Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: John F. Kennedy's Remarks, Berlin [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"John F. Kennedy: Remarks in the Rudolph Wilde Platz, Berlin" is a one page persuasive speech delivered by JFK on June 26, 1963. In it he commended West Germany in its efforts to have a democratic government and berated the Communists...
Primary
PBS

Pbs: People Power

For Students 9th - 10th
A personal interview from someone who was actually there at the historic event can tell so much more than a history book. Read an interview with a citizen of East Germany at the time of the destruction of the Berlin Wall.
PPT
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Freedom for Baltic States

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographic exhibit showcases the Baltic graffiti on the Berlin Wall among others. The West Berlin side of the Wall became the "largest canvas in the world".
PPT
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Herbst 1989 Als Die Mauer Fiel

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore this photographic online exhibit detailing the story behind the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Primary
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Years of Change

For Students 9th - 10th
A visual chronology of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Cold War, in East Germany from diary excerpts, historical snippets, and photographs. The German Reunification period ran from 1989-1991.
Graphic
Curated OER

Berlin Wall Art

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive site that chronicles the history of the Berlin Wall and its impact on Germany and the world. Includes many photos, essays, maps, a timeline, and much more.
Website
Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa

Red Escolar: La Caida Del Muro De Berlin

For Students 9th - 10th
In Spanish. Use this site to learn about the two sides to the Berlin Wall story.
Graphic
Curated OER

A View on Cities: Berlin: Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz

For Students 9th - 10th
Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz
Graphic
Curated OER

A View on Cities: Berlin: Berlin Wall

For Students 9th - 10th
Berlin Wall
Graphic
Curated OER

Berlin Wall Bernauer Str.

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive site that chronicles the history of the Berlin Wall and its impact on Germany and the world. Includes many photos, essays, maps, a timeline, and much more.
Graphic
Curated OER

Berlin Wall 1961

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive site that chronicles the history of the Berlin Wall and its impact on Germany and the world. Includes many photos, essays, maps, a timeline, and much more.
Graphic
Curated OER

Berlin Wall Brandenburg Gate

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive site that chronicles the history of the Berlin Wall and its impact on Germany and the world. Includes many photos, essays, maps, a timeline, and much more.
Activity
Library of Congress

Loc: Country Study: Germany, East (Former)

For Students 9th - 10th
U.S. Government report on the history, society, economy and government of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from its establishment in 1949 until 1987, or two years before the fall of the Berlin Wall and four years before...
Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: The Presidency and the Cold War: John F. Kennedy

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Portait Gallery explores the actions of presidents during the Cold War. Here find President Kennedy's decisions during the Berlin Crisis, the building of the Berlin War, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Watch a video of...
Graphic
Other

The Lost Border

For Students 9th - 10th
Offers color photographs and images of the division between West and East Germany. Most images are of the Berlin Wall and military installations affecting social conditions.
Website
Mother Earth Travel

Mother Earth Travel: History of Germany: Historical Setting: 1945 to 1990

For Students 9th - 10th
Germany was divided in two by the Berlin Wall, built in 1961. Understand the environment between the two sides and what led to unification in 1990.

Other popular searches