- A
blockade is the act of
actively preventing a
country or
region from
receiving or
sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications, and sometimes...
- 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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complete blockade on the
movement of
goods and
people in and out of the Gaza Strip. In the same year,
Egypt closed the
Rafah crossing point. The
blockade's current...
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Azerbaijani government launched a
blockade of the
Republic of
Artsakh by
sending citizens claiming to be eco-activists to
block the
Lachin corridor, a humanitarian...
- The
Continental Blockade (French:
Blocus continental), or
Continental System, was a large-scale
embargo by
French emperor Napoleon I
against the British...
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blockade of the Gaza
Strip after the 2023 Hamas-led
attack on
Israel and the
ensuing Israel–Hamas war when it
announced a "total
blockade",
blocking the...
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blocked the
Western Allies' railway, road, and
canal access to the
sectors of
Berlin under Western control. The
Soviets offered to drop the
blockade if...
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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...
- 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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example with the word "
blockade"
meaning a
physical barrier that was
created with the
intention of
blocking. The
suffix -
ade originates from the Latin...
