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Progressive Bloc. 1915-17. Russian liberals urging reforms.
Bull Moose. 1912-16. Liberal Republicans for Roosevelt in first US Progressive Party.
LaFollette, Robert. 1855-1925. US Progressive Party leader. Presidential candidate 1924.
Progressive Conservative. 1854-. (Named 1942) Major Canadian political party. Bennet. Diefenbaker.
Progressive Party. 1912,24 Dissident US Republicans. 1948 Dissident Democrats.
Anglo-American War. 1812-14. US, angry at British blockade of France, and Tippecanoe interference, invades Canada. Toronto and White House burned. US defeated. Ghent Treaty.
Atlantic, Battle. 1939-45. Unsuccessful German attempt to blockade Britain, WWII.
Berlin Blockade. 1948-9. Russia’s winter blockade is thwarted by US, British airlift of supplies.
Berlin Decree. 1806. Napoleon announces Continental System blockading Britain.
Bloch, Ernest. 1880-1959. Swiss/US neoclassical composer. Jewish themes. America 1926.
Blockade. Naval strategy preventing access to an enemy’s coast.
Cuban Missile Crisis. 1962. Kennedy blockades Cuba to prevent Soviet missile installation.
Lodge, Henry Cabot. 1850-1924. US isolationist senator, blocked US entry to League of Nations.
Pastry War. 1838-9. France blockades Mexico. Wins cook’s 1828 damage claims.
Venezuelan Claims. 1902-7. European countries blockade ports to press for loan repayment.
Zeebrugge, Raid. 1918. Allied attempt to block harbour, trapping German submarines, warships.