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  • in China, and greatly benefited from it. The Embargo Act from Thomas Jefferson in 1807, however, disrupted his import/export business. With the ...
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  • He designed the American/British/Dutch oil embargo that cut off 95 percent ... * Anderson, Irvine H., Jr. "The 1941 De Facto Embargo on Oil ...
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  • problem for the Batista forces was an arms embargo imposed on the Cuban government ... States, in turn, responded by placing an embargo on Cuba, which is still ...
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  • on then-President Thomas Jefferson called, The Embargo (1808). Jefferson was not only a leader of the Democratic-Republicans (1797), a party that opposed ...
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  • attempts to convict opponents of the Jeffersonian Embargo Acts and the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 all failed. Most states have provisions in their constitutions ...
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  • are also made available to non-subscribers after an embargo of two to twenty-four months, put in place in order to protect against loss of subscriptions ...
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  • with Cuba, helping Castro break the American embargo, an economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba. This, and his social policies ...
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  • Other economic policies enacted by the Mountain included an embargo ... In addition to the embargo against foreign goods, Act 1651, passed ...
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  • economy. On the other hand, the international embargo against South Africa finally forced the white minority to grant political and human rights to its ...
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  • however. Madison and Jefferson decided on an embargo to punish Britain, which meant forbidding all Americans to trade with any foreign nation. The embargo ...
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  • Soon after the war had started, the U.S. had imposed an embargo on military aid on both India and Pakistan. This embargo did not affect the Indian ...
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  • and the British, who imposed an aid embargo on Sri Lanka. As a result, Bandaranaike moved her country closer to China and the Soviet Union and ...
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  • Anabaptists and supporting a food embargo against Roman Catholic cantons ... Bern’s proposal to impose a food embargo on the Catholic cantons ...
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  • those of BP, had been breaking the UN oil embargo from the moment it was imposed ... ===$2 million fine by UN for violation of embargo against Iraq=== ...
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  • of the United Nations endorsed the British embargo. The embargo meant the Rhodesian ... Rhodesian Army was, considering the arms embargo, well-equipped. The standard ...
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  • either side. The Anglo-French arms embargo meant that the Republicans ... Both Italy under Mussolini and Germany under Hitler violated the embargo ...
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  • carrying out such function include monitoring the embargo in the former Republic of Yugoslavia in 1993, assisting the UN with enforcing sanction on the ...
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  • On September 25, 1991, UN Resolution 713 enforced an arms embargo ... Bosnia repeatedly called for the UN embargo to be lifted and also for ...
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  • moral purchasing such as the longstanding embargo against South African businesses ... *the Arab countries' crude oil embargo against the West in 1973 ...
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  • bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6225723.stm UN lifts embargo on caviar trade] BBC News, Tuesday, 2 January 2007. Retrieved September 11, 2008. ...
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  • and the nation, prompted by an international oil embargo in 1973 and accelerating fuel costs later in the decade. The average cost of electricity ...
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  • response to nationalization, Britain placed an embargo on Iranian oil exports, which worsened the already fragile economy. Neither the AIOC nor Mossadeq ...
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  • invaded French Indochina in an effort to embargo all imports into China, ... quot;belligerent" scrap metal and oil embargo in 1941 by the United States ...
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  • were under the threat of an Arab oil embargo and trade boycott. The only country in the world that would come to Israel's assistance would ...
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  • quot; agreement, an international embargo on Western exports to Eastern Bloc countries. The scandal involved a subsidiary of Toshiba and the ...
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  • nations, under threat of an Arab oil embargo and trade boycott, had stopped ... per month on October 17, and threatened an embargo. President Nixon then appealed ...
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  • United States government imposed an arms embargo on the Cuban government ... in 1958 when the U.S. imposed an arms embargo. At the same time several ...
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  • users gain open access to articles after a short embargo. The term can also used to describe publishers that permit or encourage self-archiving by ...
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  • provided maritime enforcement of the arms embargo and economic sanctions against ... NATO states agreed on enforcing an arms embargo against Libya with Operation ...
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  • the Reagan administration ordered a total embargo on United States trade with ... the government, and, after 1985, the total embargo on trade with the United ...
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  • was necessary. The U.S. imposed an embargo preventing Batista from acquiring American arms. U.S. companies still had extensive business interests ...
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  • in various countries, by issuing an embargo against Cuba after the 1959 Cuban Revolution—which started on February 7, 1962—and supporting ...
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  • neither side could afford and so a United Nations embargo on the sale of arms to either side was widely reported as unlikely to prove very effective. ...
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  • in the 1973 decision by OPEC to establish an oil embargo against the United States, which was lifted in March 1974. With American support, Israel regained ...
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  • President Jefferson retaliated with the Embargo Act of 1807, ceasing all ... native New England's response to the Embargo of 1807, rebutted Hayne ...
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  • In 2008, Pelosi said: "For years, I have opposed the embargo on Cuba. I don't think it's been successful, and I think we have ...
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  • and end the long-standing economic embargo against North Korea. That argument contends that the threat of nuclear weapons has been the only North ...
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  • family was impoverished by the passage of the Embargo Act in 1807 and they were forced to scrounge for food and sell homemade molasses to make ends ...
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  • detente era, with the imposition of a grain embargo by the U.S. By 1980, Breznev lacked effectiveness but remained a figurehead for the country ...
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  • in Panjim since 1947), imposing an economic embargo against the territories of Portuguese Goa. The Indian Government adopted a "wait and watch ...
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  • include the Louisiana Purchase (1803), the Embargo Act of 1807, and the Lewis ... * Embargo Act of 1807, an attempt to force respect for U.S. neutrality ...
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  • China, Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced an oil embargo of Japan. With that as a pretext for war, the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the U ...
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  • of Luang Prabang. Immediately, Thailand imposed an embargo on the city of Vientiane. The United States Secretary of State, Christian Herter, made it clear ...
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  • and the Reagan administration imposed a full trade embargo. the lack of foreign exchange and the trade embargo imposed by the United States ...
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  • currency. After Saudi Arabia started an oil embargo against Britain and France, the U.S. refused to fill the gap, until Britain and France agreed to a ...
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  • economic recession resulting from the OPEC oil embargo, inflation caused by excessive government expenditures for the Vietnam War, and the general malaise ...
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  • downsized Yugoslavia, and a Greek economic embargo over a dispute about the ... Since the end of the Greek embargo, Greece has become the most important ...
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  • The Indian government placed a temporary news embargo on information from Pakistan, even banning the telecast of the state-run Pakistani channel ...
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  • was then under a strict United Nations embargo.This led to a conflict with ... Yugoslavia, in spite of a United Nations embargo that included sanctions ...
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  • of Iran's economy; the British-led oil embargo against Iran ended, and oil revenue increased significantly beyond the pre-nationalization level ...
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