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.
  It was a wall that divided East Germany  and West Germany.   The Berlin wall is, of corse as you can tell, a wall. It separated  east Berlin from west Berlin. It was built in 1961/62.  It was a wall separating Germany into two parts East, and West  Berlin.East controlled by Soviet Union and the west controlled by  United States, France, and Great Britain. Answer   The Berlin Wall divided West Berlin from East Germany. This is important--it ran all the way around town, and people escaped into West Berlin from all directions. You only heard about the people who escaped from East Berlin.