During the Soviet Union's blockade of West Berlin in 1948, the commanders of the Berlin airlift had cabled Capp, requesting inflatable shmoos as part of " Operation: Little Vittles.

The Rideau Canal was built as a result of the War of 1812 to provide military transportation between the British colonies of Upper Canada and Lower Canada as an alternative to part of the St. Lawrence River, which was susceptible to blockade by the United States.

As part of the government's information blockade policy, North Korean radios and televisions must be modified to receive only government stations.

Military usage includes attacking enemy surface ships or submarines, aircraft carrier protection, blockade running, ballistic missile submarines as part of a nuclear strike force, reconnaissance, conventional land attack ( for example using a cruise missile ), and covert insertion of special forces.

Despite his strong dislike of Wegener, Raeder agreed that it had been a huge mistake on the part of Germany not to have occupied Norway, the " Gate to the Atlantic " in 1914 as control of Norway would allowed Germany to escape the North Sea by breaking the British distant blockade.

The second part of the " Wegener thesis " about breaking the British distant blockade, namely seizing the Shetland Islands, Wegener's other " Gate to the Altantic ", Raeder rejected as early as the 1920s as utterly impractical.

The 1828 tariff was part of a series of tariffs that began after the War of 1812 and the Napoleonic Wars, when the blockade of Europe led British manufacturers to offer goods in America at low prices that American manufacturers often could not match.

" By the end of the war, the best German troops were dead and the remainder were under continuous pressure on all parts of the Western Front, a consequence in part of an almost endless supply of fresh American reinforcements ( which the Germans were unable to match ) and in part of industry at last supplying the weakened Entente armies with the firepower to replace the men they lacked ( whilst Germany wanted for all sorts of materials thanks to the naval blockade ).

The blockade was caused, in part, by early local elections of October 1946 in which the Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( SED ) was rejected in favor of the Social Democratic Party, which had gained two and a half times more votes than the SED.

In 2010, Pilger endorsed the Canadian Boat to Gaza, part of the Freedom Flotilla 2 which aims to end the Israeli blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip.

The King ’ s prestige, which was based in large part on his support by the combined Great Powers, but mostly the support of the British, suffered in the Pacifico incident of 1850, when British Foreign Secretary Palmerston sent the British fleet to blockade the port of Piraeus with warships, to exact reparation for injustice done to a British subject.

She received orders for many different missions: she was one of the ships that attacked the Forts St. Philip and Jackson, and under the command of Captain James Alden, Jr. she was part of the fleet that helped to blockade Mobile Bay.

The Canadian fur trade began to change in 1806, after Napoleon Bonaparte ordered the blockade of the Baltic Sea as part of the ongoing struggle between France and Britain for world dominance.

* In C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, Earth ( known as Thulcandra ) is part of the Field of Arbol: and is the subject of an interplanetary blockade — hence its name, the Silent Planet.

He took part in the blockade of Thapsus.

The battle was a part of the effort of the Confederacy to break the Union blockade, which had cut off Virginia's largest cities, Norfolk and Richmond, from international trade.

It was utilized until the 1990s and even served time as part of the Cuban blockade during the missile crisis of the 1960s.

Battle of Vuelta de Obligado, part of the Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata.

Any piece that is not on a safe space or a part of a blockade can be captured by an opposing pawn.

Douglas C-47 Skytrain | C47 s unloading at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, part of the airlift of supplies which broke the Soviet Union's 1948 Berlin Blockade | land blockade of West Berlin

A blockade is an effort to cut off food, supplies, war material or communications from a particular area by force, either in part or totally.

After Themistocles tricked Xerxes into separating his fleet by sending part around the island to blockade the Greek fleet in the Straits of Salamis, Eurybiades was forced to accept Salamis as the battlefield.

Anthropologists, along with other social scientists, are working with the US military as part of the US Army's strategy in Afghanistan.

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

As part of the re-branding exercise, NYSE Alternext US was re-branded as NYSE Amex Equities.

* 1861 – American Civil War: in order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 ( 3 % of all incomes over US $ 800 ; rescinded in 1872 ).

The desire to create air portable armoured vehicles that can still take on conventional MBTs has usually resulted ATGM armed light vehicles or in protected / armoured / mobile gun system style vehicles in which a lack of armour protection being in part offset by the provision of a first look / first hit / first kill capability through the mating of a powerful gun to superior targeting electronics, a concept similar in operation to that of the US tank destroyers of WWII.

During this period the US considered the defense of the US as a part of reducing the overall damage inflicted in a full nuclear exchange.

As part of this defense, Canada and the US established the North American Air Defense Command ( now called North American Aerospace Defense Command NORAD ).

Several jurisdictions in the US have declared barratry ( in the sense of a frivolous or harassing litigant ) to be a crime as part of their tort reform efforts.

Channel 4 co-commissioned Robert Ashley's ground-breaking television opera ' Perfect Lives ', including the use of Lost and Desperate Housewives as part of the experiment, as US broadcasters such as ABC already have an HDTV back catalogue.

( As of 2001 ) the BGM-109 Tomahawk missile model has become a significant part of the US naval arsenal.

The United States government recognizes the interconnected information technology and the interdependent network of information technology infrastructures operating across this medium as part of the US National Critical Infrastructure.

Further soundings made by the US Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping in 2011 are in agreement with this figure, placing the deepest part of the Challenger Deep at, with a vertical precision of approximately.

In the early 1960s, Brubeck and his wife Iola developed a jazz musical, The Real Ambassadors, based in part on experiences they and their colleagues had during foreign tours on behalf of the US State Department.

No monetary payment was made from the US to the UK as part of this agreement or any subsequent amendment.

It is possible that electrothermal-chemical gun propulsion will be an integral part of US Army's future combat system and those of other countries such as Germany and the United Kingdom.

In 2012 it was announced that the US State Department would start flame trolling Jihads as part of Operation Viral Peace

He also opposes the US Department of Education and Council on Higher Education Accreditation, claiming it is a cartel and the group has, in part, caused higher education to " become uniformly secular, liberal, and mediocre: raising the cost of entry.

Portugal, belonging to the part of Europe led by the US, remained linked to the idea of the socialist state.

Established in 1959 as one of the first Indian Institute of Technology, the institute was created with the assistance of a consortium of nine leading US research universities as part of the Kanpur Indo-American Programme ( KIAP ).

In the US and Canada, dental insurance is often part of an employer's benefits package, along with health insurance.

In 1992, the US Department of Defense along with the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ), cosponsored the Text Retrieval Conference ( TREC ) as part of the TIPSTER text program.

A newer view of insider trading, the " misappropriation theory ," is now part of US law.