The Berlin Wall Monument is a public display of a piece from the actual Berlin Wall which existed in the second half of the 20th century. It is an example if material culture of the Old World in Chicago, Illinois. Like other pieces, it is made of solid concrete with some graffiti on one side. A fence with barbed wire existed before the concrete barricade was erected. The Berlin Wall represented one of the great political, economic, and ideological divides of the twentieth century between two major powers: the United States and the Soviet Union. The conflict between these two powers affected the global community, namely Germany. Even after it was demolished, the wall symbolized divisions in Germany and the rest of the world, ones that arguably still exist today.