blockade
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A blockade is a military or political action that prevents supplies, people, or goods from entering or leaving a place, typically by controlling access routes. Blockades have been used in major historical conflicts—such as during the American Civil War and the Soviet blockade of Berlin in 1948—to pressure an opposing side into surrender or submission.
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12 sectionsContents
- History
- Types of blockade
- Close, distant, and loose blockades
- Pacific blockade
- Legal status
- Act of war
- Blockade planning
- Blockade running
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
thumb|upright=1.3|''Winfield Scott|Scott's great snake'', a cartoon map illustrating the Union blockade of the Confederacy during the [[American Civil War, known as the Anaconda Plan, illustrated by J.B. Elliott]] thumb|Douglas C-47 Skytrain|C47s unloading at [[Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, part of the airlift of supplies which broke the Soviet Union's 1948 land blockade of West Berlin]]
Blockade is the act of actively preventing a country or region from receiving or sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications, and sometimes people, by military force. A blockade differs from an embargo or sanction, which are legal barriers to trade rather than physical barriers. It is also distinct from a siege in that a blockade is usually directed at an entire country or region, rather than a fortress or city and the objective may not always be to conquer the area.