The Berlin Wall: A Brief History from Beginning to the End

History Encounters unearths the greatest stories with the major events from The Berlin Wall to expand reader horizons for readers to be best informed.

The Berlin Wall was the concrete manifestation of the Iron Curtain, which signified the profound ideological difference between the capitalist, democratic Western powers and the socialist, communist Soviet Union.

After WWII ended, the Allied Powers carved up defeated Germany into four blocks. They did the same to Berlin. While Russia had been...