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    A blockade is the act of actively preventing a country or region from receiving or sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications, and sometimes...
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    The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of...
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    blockade on the movement of goods and people in and out of the Gaza Strip. In the same year, Egypt closed the Rafah border crossing. The blockade's stated...
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    confronting the blockaders in order to break the blockade. Blockade runners usually transport cargo, for example bringing food or arms to a blockaded city. They...
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  • Blood Blockade Battlefront (Japanese: 血界戦線, Hepburn: Kekkai Sensen; lit. 'Bloodline Battlefront') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by...
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    The Union blockade in the American Civil War was a naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading. The blockade was proclaimed...
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  • Look up blockade in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blockade is the prevention of troops and supplies from reaching an opposing army. Blockade may also...
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    The blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh was an event in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The region was disputed between Azerbaijan and the breakaway Republic of...
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  • Blockade Billy is a 2010 novella by Stephen King. It tells the story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely, a fictional baseball catcher who briefly played...
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    implemented a temporary blockade of Gaza. The blockade became indefinite after the 2007 Hamas takeover. Egypt also began its blockade of Gaza in 2007. Despite...
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    The siege of Leningrad was a military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) in the Soviet...
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    During the American Civil War, blockade runners were used to get supplies through the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America that extended...
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  • The Valdez Blockade was a 1993 protest by Cordova fishermen who blockaded the Valdez Narrows in an attempt to obtain funding for research and restoration...
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    accused India of provoking the blockade, which the Indian government denied. The blockade lasted until February 2016. The blockade, which came just months after...
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    On 9 October 2023, Israel intensified its blockade of the Gaza Strip when it announced a "total blockade", blocking the entry of food, water, medicine...
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    The blockade of Yemen refers to a sea, land and air blockade on Yemen which started with the positioning of Saudi Arabian warships in Yemeni waters in...
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    The Blockade of Germany (1939–1945), also known as the Economic War, involved operations carried out during World War II by the British Empire and by France...
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    The Soviet Union imposed an economic blockade on Lithuania between 18 April and 2 July 1990. By the late 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet...
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    The blockade of Biafra by the Nigerian federal government during the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) resulted in a famine that ultimately cost at least...
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  • Blockade of Germany may refer to: Blockade of Germany (1914–1919) during World War I Blockade of Germany (1939–1945) during World War II This disambiguation...
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    The Continental System or Continental Blockade (French: Blocus continental) was a large-scale embargo by French emperor Napoleon I against the British...
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    In mesoscopic physics, a Coulomb blockade (CB), named after Charles-Augustin de Coulomb's electrical force, is the decrease in electrical conductance at...
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  • A pacific blockade is a blockade exercised by a great power for the purpose of bringing pressure to bear on a weaker state without actual war. It can be...
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    The Blockade of Germany, or the Blockade of Europe, occurred from 1914 to 1919. The prolonged naval blockade was conducted by the Allies during and after...
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    Union during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, which forced the U.S. to fully blockade the island. The embargo was loosened during the Cuban thaw in 2015, tightening...
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  • The list of blockades informs about blockades that were carried out either on land, or in the maritime and air spaces in the effort to defeat opponents...
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  • Operation Blockade is a 2002 first-person shooter video game developed by ScreamingGames and published by Infogrames for Microsoft Windows. Set in a mock...
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    The Blockade of Callao was a military operation that occurred during the War of the Pacific or the Salitre War and that consisted of the Chilean squadron...
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    blockade running companies, such as John Fraser and Company and S. Isaac, Campbell & Company while the Ordnance Department secured its own blockade runners...
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  • Blockade IMARC refers to a protest against meetings of the International Mining and Resources Conference (IMARC) on the 29, 30 and 31 of October 2019 in...
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