5. of or pertaining to a pastor or the duties of a pastor: pastoral visits to a hospital. 6. pertaining to or designating the herding of domesticated animals as the chief means of subsistence. 7. a literary work dealing with the life of shepherds, commonly in a conventional manner; bucolic.
Beginning on October 27, American and Soviet forces faced off at âCheckpoint Charlie,â an access point controlling passage across the wall. The Berlin Crisis was eventually resolved when the United States acquiesced to the wallâs construction in November 1961.
The Berlin Crisis began November 26, 1958, when Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of Soviet Ministers, issued an ultimatum to the Western Powers. He declared that they had six months to turn West Berlin into a demilitarized free city.