Blockade

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A blockade is an effort usually (but not always, see below) at sea, to prevent supplies from reaching the enemy.

Historical blockades include:

• Union blockade of the Confederacy
• United Kingdom blockade of Germany during World War I
• Battle of the Atlantic
• United States blockade of Japan during World War II
• United States blockade of Cuba during 1962 Cuban missile crisis
• Russian land blockade of West Berlin, 1948-1949; the response was the Berlin Airlift.

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Blockade" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade, used under the GNU Free Documentation License