J14P11 Qn 8(a) Examiner Report

Question 8 (a) Many candidates were able to identify that too many people were leaving East Berlin to go to the west, and also that the Soviets demanded that the Western powers vacated the whole of Berlin. Some candidates’ responses would have been improved by the ability to differentiate between the Berlin Blockade and the building of the Berlin Wall; a number of responses were focused solely upon the Berlin Blockade.