The blockade of the Gaza Strip is the ongoing land, air, and sea blockade of the Gaza Strip imposed by Israel and Egypt in 2007, after Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip during the Battle of Gaza, seizing government institutions and replacing Fatah and other Palestinian Authority (PA) officials with Hamas members. Earlier, after Hamas won elections and formed the PA …

The Anaconda Plan is the name applied to a strategy outlined by the Union Army for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War. Proposed by Union General-in-Chief Winfield Scott, the plan emphasized a Union blockade of the Southern ports and called for an advance down the Mississippi River to cut the South in two. Because the blockade would be …

Als Leningrader Blockade (russisch блокада Ленинграда blokada Leningrada) bezeichnet man die Belagerung Leningrads durch die deutsche Heeresgruppe Nord und spanische Truppen (Blaue Division) während des Zweiten Weltkriegs.Im Norden riegelten finnische Truppen die Stadt ab. Sie dauerte vom 8. September 1941 bis zum 27. Januar 1944, also etwa 28 Monate.