CommonLit
Common Lit: East German Man Receives Contest Prize 45 Years Later
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
Mother Earth Travel
Mother Earth Travel: Christian Democrat/christian Socialist Free Democrat
Find the background of the Christian Democratics and Christian Socialist-Free Democratic Coalition which slowly led to peace between East and West Germany by the mid-1980's.
Mother Earth Travel
Mother Earth Travel: History of Germany: Historical Setting: 1945 to 1990
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.
Mother Earth Travel
Mother Earth Travel: Opening of the Berlin Wall and Unification
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.
Curated OER
Ousted West German Leader Erich Honecker
This BBC article describes how popular unrest lead to the ousting of East Germany leader Erich Honecker. Examines protests on the part of East German citizens and Gorbachev's decision to remove Honecker.
Other
The Lost Border
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.
Curated OER
The Lost Border
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.
Curated OER
The Lost Border
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.
Curated OER
The Lost Border
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.