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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 ...

He designed the American/British/Dutch oil embargo that cut off 95 percent ... * Anderson, Irvine H., Jr. "The 1941 De Facto Embargo on Oil ...

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 ...

on then-President Thomas Jefferson called, The Embargo (1808). Jefferson was not only a leader of the Democratic-Republicans (1797), a party that opposed ...

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 ...

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 ...

with Cuba, helping Castro break the American embargo, an economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba. This, and his social policies ...

Other economic policies enacted by the Mountain included an embargo ... In addition to the embargo against foreign goods, Act 1651, passed ...

economy. On the other hand, the international embargo against South Africa finally forced the white minority to grant political and human rights to its ...

however. Madison and Jefferson decided on an embargo to punish Britain, which meant forbidding all Americans to trade with any foreign nation. The embargo ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anabaptists and supporting a food embargo against Roman Catholic cantons ... Bern’s proposal to impose a food embargo on the Catholic cantons ...

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=== ...

of the United Nations endorsed the British embargo. The embargo meant the Rhodesian ... Rhodesian Army was, considering the arms embargo, well-equipped. The standard ...

either side. The Anglo-French arms embargo meant that the Republicans ... Both Italy under Mussolini and Germany under Hitler violated the embargo ...

carrying out such function include monitoring the embargo in the former Republic of Yugoslavia in 1993, assisting the UN with enforcing sanction on the ...

On September 25, 1991, UN Resolution 713 enforced an arms embargo ... Bosnia repeatedly called for the UN embargo to be lifted and also for ...

moral purchasing such as the longstanding embargo against South African businesses ... *the Arab countries' crude oil embargo against the West in 1973 ...

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. ...

and the nation, prompted by an international oil embargo in 1973 and accelerating fuel costs later in the decade. The average cost of electricity ...

response to nationalization, Britain placed an embargo on Iranian oil exports, which worsened the already fragile economy. Neither the AIOC nor Mossadeq ...

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 ...

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 ...

quot; agreement, an international embargo on Western exports to Eastern Bloc countries. The scandal involved a subsidiary of Toshiba and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

provided maritime enforcement of the arms embargo and economic sanctions against ... NATO states agreed on enforcing an arms embargo against Libya with Operation ...

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 ...

was necessary. The U.S. imposed an embargo preventing Batista from acquiring American arms. U.S. companies still had extensive business interests ...

in various countries, by issuing an embargo against Cuba after the 1959 Cuban Revolution—which started on February 7, 1962—and supporting ...

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. ...

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 ...

President Jefferson retaliated with the Embargo Act of 1807, ceasing all ... native New England's response to the Embargo of 1807, rebutted Hayne ...

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 ...

and end the long-standing economic embargo against North Korea. That argument contends that the threat of nuclear weapons has been the only North ...

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 ...

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 ...

in Panjim since 1947), imposing an economic embargo against the territories of Portuguese Goa. The Indian Government adopted a "wait and watch ...

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 ...

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 ...

of Luang Prabang. Immediately, Thailand imposed an embargo on the city of Vientiane. The United States Secretary of State, Christian Herter, made it clear ...

and the Reagan administration imposed a full trade embargo. the lack of foreign exchange and the trade embargo imposed by the United States ...

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 ...

economic recession resulting from the OPEC oil embargo, inflation caused by excessive government expenditures for the Vietnam War, and the general malaise ...

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 ...

The Indian government placed a temporary news embargo on information from Pakistan, even banning the telecast of the state-run Pakistani channel ...

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 ...

of Iran's economy; the British-led oil embargo against Iran ended, and oil revenue increased significantly beyond the pre-nationalization level ...

of exports to Cuba, initiating an economic embargo. In retaliation, the National ... productivity coupled with the U.S. trade embargo. Food shortages led to rationing ...

property and businesses on the island, prompting an embargo by the U.S. that hit Havana especially hard. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, ending ...

helium gas was a United States military embargo on helium. The United Kingdom's flag carrier during this period was Imperial Airways, which ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt would have had to impose an embargo due to the Neutrality Acts had the fighting been named a war. In Japanese propaganda ...

of the country, harmed by an international trade embargo and hyperinflation. Yugoslavia overcame the problems of inflation in the mid-1990s. By 2008 ...

Carranza constitutionalists, and the subject of an embargo by the United States, so communication or further shipments of arms between the Germans and ...

and the international community's financial embargo of the Palestinian Authority after Hamas took office in 2006. The Israeli settlers of ...

industry, created as a result of the Arab oil embargo. The population boom ended abruptly in the mid-1980s, as oil prices fell precipitously. ...

(1937–1945) and the placement of an oil embargo on Japan by the United States. ... *Worth, Roland H., Jr. No Choice But War: The United States Embargo ...

plagued the economy for many decades. A trade embargo from the United States and most of Europe after the Vietnam War also hindered economic development ...

offenses against the United Nations mandatory arms embargo outlawing the export of arms to South Africa. Early morning October 12, 1984, the day ...

Second World War." Carter later placed an embargo on shipments of commodities such as grain and high technology to the Soviet Union from the U ...

of nuclear power plants worldwide. The oil embargo led to a global economic recession, energy conservation, and high inflation that both reduced ...

the Richard Nixon administration imposed an embargo on soybean exports. It lasted only a week, but Japanese buyers felt that they could not rely ...

and Haiti; he also proposed an arms embargo on Latin America and a one-third reduction in the world's naval forces, which was called the ...

One of the earliest acts of the new ministry was to lay an embargo upon cereal (corn), which was thought necessary in order to prevent a dearth ...

On November 3, 1997, the U.S. government imposed a trade embargo against Sudan and a total asset freeze against the Government of Sudan under ...

heartily welcomed Evita, who ignored a UN embargo to visit Spain.]] ... An embargo against the Francoist regime resulted in 1946 - including ...

The Cold War was the protracted ideological, geopolitical, and economic struggle that emerged after World War II between the global superpowers ...

when oil prices increased with the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973. The population increased by 254,000 in the seventeen years between 1971 (403,000) and ...

European Economic Community announced an arms embargo, and China's image as a reforming country and a valuable ally against the Soviet Union was ...

War, when the United Nations ordered a trade embargo against the communist government. [[Image:Flag of Hong Kong 1959.svg|thumb|right|200px|Colonial ...

the West, hoping that an oil price rise and embargo in 1973 would persuade the West—especially the United States—to end support for Israel. Gaddafi ...

and five years of disintegration, war, boycott, and embargo, the economy of the former Yugoslavia collapsed. The Reagan administration of the ...

people employed in agriculture, and the Carter embargo marked the beginning of hardship for American farmers. He also prohibited Americans from participating ...

1973) was triggered by the OPEC which decided an embargo against the US and Western countries, causing a fourfold increase in the price of oil, which ...

In the summer of 1941, the United States began an oil embargo against Japan, which was a protest to Japan's incursion into French Indo-China ...

Arab oil-producing countries announced an oil embargo. In a 1993 interview, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara revealed that the U.S. ...

from the oil price shocks caused by the Arab oil embargo and a subsequent global economic downturn. Between the signing of the Paris Accord and ...

obtained in Europe and China, but the trade embargo has forced North Korea to build their own vehicles. A local producer of vehicles is Sungri Motor Plant ...

Megarian Decree, which resembled a modern trade embargo. According to the provisions of the decree, Megarian merchants were excluded from the market of ...

Iran (ايران, Īrān), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (جمهوری اسلامی ايران, transliteration: Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī ...

In 1807, Portugal refused Napoleon's demand to join an embargo against the United Kingdom. A French invasion under General Junot followed ...