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 Airlift, 1948â1949. At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany.he crisis ended on May 12, 1949, when Soviet forces lifted the blockade on land access to western Berlin. U.S. Navy and Air Force aircrafts unload at Tempelhof Airport during the Berlin Airlift. (U.S. Air Force).