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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 Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was an unofficial coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991).
This is a list of the violent political and ethnic conflicts in the countries of the former Soviet Union following its dissolution in 1991. Some of these conflicts such as the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis or the 2013–2014 Euromaidan protests in Ukraine were due to political crises in the successor states. Others involved separatist ...
List of blockades; 0–9. 1982 Golan Heights Druze general strike; ... Soviet economic blockade of Lithuania; List of foreign ships wrecked or lost in the Spanish ...
The Berlin Blockade (24 April 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
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Blockade running is the practice of delivering cargo (food, for example) to a blockaded area. It has mainly been done by ships (called blockade runners) across ports under naval blockade. Blockade runners were typically the fastest ships available and often lightly armed and armored.
The attack on the Soviet naval presence: 1961: 1968: Albania: Soviet Union Supported by: Warsaw Pact: Bulgaria Czechoslovakia East Germany Hungary Poland: Southeast Europe: 1960 U-2 incident: May 1, 1960: May 1, 1960: United States: Soviet Union: Eastern Europe: Congo Crisis: June 30, 1960: November 25, 1965: 1960–63: Katanga South Kasai ...