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Packet 9: Bonus 5

Description Acceptable. In the leadup to this event, Pastor Christian Führer led “Monday Demonstrations” organized by the Nikolai Church. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this event initiated by a botched Gunter Schabowski (“schuh-BAO-skee”) press conference. Mauerspechte (“MAO-er-shpekt”) stormed Checkpoint Charlie during this event.
ANSWER: Fall of the Berlin Wall [accept descriptions of the destruction or collapse or breaching of the Berlin Wall; prompt on German Reunification with “what specific event sparked the reunification of Germany?”; prompt on descriptions of the end of the Cold War]
[10h] Shortly after the Wall was built in 1961, the US deployed a tank squad to Checkpoint Charlie in order to allow this diplomat to watch an East Berlin Opera Show.
ANSWER: E. Allan Lightner Jr.
[10e] This US president denounced the Berlin wall as an “offense to history” in the Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech he gave near Checkpoint Charlie. This leader responded to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
ANSWER: John Fitzgerald Kennedy [or JFK]
<History - European, Vikram Narasimhan> | VAULT II Packet 09

HeardPPBE %M %H %
4017.7598%78%3%

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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Belmont AMansfield A1001020ME
Waltham AMansfield B1001020ME

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