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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 by President Abraham Lincoln in April 1861, and required the monitoring of 3,500 miles (5,600 km) of Atlantic and Gulf coastline, including 12 major ports, notably New Orleans and Mobile.
Although the blockade was initially ineffective due to the use of neutral ports in the Soviet Union and Francoist Spain, it grew more severe when the Soviet Union and the United States entered the war in 1941 and when the Germans lost control of their occupied territories in France and Eastern Europe in 1944. 1940–1945 United Kingdom
The Berlin Crisis of 1958–1959 was a crisis over the status of West Berlin during the Cold War.It resulted from efforts by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to react strongly against American nuclear warheads located in West Germany, and build up the prestige of the Soviet satellite state of East Germany.
Description: A political Map of Europe in SVG format. Every country has an id which is its ISO-3116-1-ALPHA2 code in lower case for easy coloring.
Rank Country Index 1 Norway 6.72 2 Finland 6.99 3 Sweden 7.24 4 Denmark 8.57 5 Netherlands 9.67 6 Portugal 10.11 7 Switzerland 10.55 8 Belgium 11.69 9 Ireland ...
Map showing greatest territorial extent of the Soviet Union and the states that it dominated politically, economically and militarily in 1960, after the Cuban Revolution of 1959 but before the official Sino-Soviet split of 1961 (total area: c. 35,000,000 km 2) [G] A map showing the relations of Marxist–Leninist states after the Sino-Soviet ...
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While the Iron Curtain remained in place, much of Eastern Europe and many parts of Central Europe – except West Germany, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and most of Austria (all of Austria after the withdrawal of occupying Allied forces and the declaration of Austria's neutrality that resulted from the Austrian State Treaty in 1955) – found ...