The Berlin Wall symbolized the physical border in Europe after World War II.
Along with the separate and much longer Inner German border -LRB- IGB -RRB- , which demarcated the border between East and West Germany , it came to symbolize a physical marker of the `` Iron Curtain '' that separated Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War .	Inner German border	Inner German border	Eastern Bloc	Eastern Bloc	West Germany	West Germany	Iron Curtain	Iron Curtain	Cold War	Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc -LRB- the Soviet Union and its satellite states -RRB- and powers in the Western Bloc -LRB- the United States , its NATO allies and others -RRB- .	Soviet Union	Soviet Union	World War II	World War II	Eastern Bloc	Eastern Bloc	Western Bloc	Western Bloc	United States	United States	NATO	NATO
