For many people when they hear the word Berlin Wall they tend to have a question about which war it was built for. The Berlin Wall per se was not a structure of a war but was a wall that separated the city of Berlin in Germany during the major war, the Cold War. The following section specially details events that led to the emergence of the wall and ultimately its collapse.

The Cold War: A Brief Overview

The Cold War was the state of political and economical competition between US and Soviet Union which began in late 1945s to early 1990s. It was political, ideological and military confrontation between the two superpowers, but without armed conflict.

The Division of Germany

At the end of World War II, Germany was divided into four occupation zones controlled by the Allied powers: the United States, USSR, Great Britain and France. The Soviet Zone itself was also divided into four sectors; the capital city of Germany being Berlin.

Berlin Wall construction

At 1961, relationship between the Soviet Union and the Western Bloc was very tense. Sovietized East Germany put up the Berlin Wall to keep East Berliners from crossing over to the West Berlin, which represented freedom and prosperity.

The erection of the barrier in Berlin started during the night of August 13,1961, and included concrete walls, barbed wire, watchtowers as well as anti-vehicular ramparts. People were forced to be isolated from their kin due to long distances and693 suffering as a result of the pain of separation from loved ones, and restricted liberty.

The Impact of the Berlin Wall

The consequences of the Berlin Wall for the people in Berlin as well as for the whole world cannot be overestimated. It assumed the role of a symbol of the classes between the western capitalist and the eastern communists.

To the east germans , the wall was a big eye sore that reminded them of the limitations in everything they did on a daily basis. People who tried to climb the wall were either imprisoned or killed on the spot.

Globally construed, the physical representation of the wall that was in Berlin represented the battle of democracy versus communism. Today it has become a symbol of the suppression and liberation movements.

The Fall of the Berlin Wall

In the early 1990s the political changes were discovered as the Cold War period came to a close at the same period. Under resurfacing pressures from the citizens as well as the global map, on November 9, 1989, East Germany made a historic statement that means the border between East or West Germany would be removed.

People from both parts of the divided country started approaching the wall, and, a huge symbolic event that has taken place in on September, 1989, border guards opened the border at last. Glad moments of ‘coming home’ and people falicitating each other splashed across the globe.

The Aftermath

The Berlin Wall was felled on November 13, the event signifying the collapse of the Cold War and the actual physical division of Germany into two parts. It prepared the ground for removal of other barriers, both physical and also brought drastic shifts in geopolitics across the world.

Conclusion

The Berlin Wall was not used in the war but it was part of the so called Cold war. They performed a unique role in the lives of people of Berlin and the globe; it was built and destroyed contributing significantly to the histories of these two entities. To make sense of this time it is important to understand the context and ramifications of the Berlin Wall.