Warfare

Blockade

The Royal Navy's effort to cut off Germany's seaborne trade, begun in August 1914 and tightened in 1915. It contributed to the severe food shortages in Germany and continued until July 1919.

Mentioned in

• Chapter I The Long Fuse §9 Armies and War Plans
• Chapter IV Deadlock §1 Why the Trenches? Firepower and the Shell Crisis§10 The Lusitania, Zeppelins and the War in the Air
• Chapter V The Year of Attrition §1 The Plan for 1916: Chantilly§4 The Ottoman Fronts: Kut, Erzurum and the Arab Revolt§6 Jutland: The Day of the Dreadnoughts§10 Romania's Gamble and Germany's New Masters
• Chapter VII The Last Gamble Overview§9 Germany's Revolution§10 The Eleventh Hour: Compiègne
• Chapter VIII The Reckoning and the Remaking §1 The Dead, the Maimed and the Flu
• Chapter IX In the Trenches §4 The Other Enemies: Rats, Lice, Mud and Cold
• Chapter XI War on Waves and Wings Overview§1 The Balance of 1914: Dreadnoughts and the Fleet in Being§2 The Distant Blockade and the Hunger Winters§6 Jutland Dissected: Guns, Powder and Signals
• Chapter XII The Home Fronts Overview§1 Total War and the Rise of the State§4 Food, Rationing and Hunger§7 Enemy Aliens, Internment and Refugees
• Chapter XIII A World on Fire Overview§8 The Economic World War