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.
People & Events. The blockade of Berlin was the first serious crisis of the Cold War. By 1948, the Western allies began moving towards consolidating their occupation zones in Western Germany into a single independent German state. As part of that process, the U.S., France and Britain took steps to reform the currency in the parts of Germany they occupied, in order to promote economic recovery.