26German Blockade & Merchant Submarine
During World War 1, to get around British blockades, the German Lloyd company built a merchant submarine to trade with then neutral America. It made 2 trips before America entered the war after which it was converted to a warship and it went on to sink 42 ships on 3 patrols.
27. In 2007, when the US threatened an embargo against Sudan for the human rights violations in Darfur, the Sudanese ambassador to the US threatened to stop exports of gum Arabic, the main ingredient in Coca-Cola.
28. The Havana Club brand of rum manufactured in Cuba cannot be sold in the US due to the Cuba embargo. "Havana Club" sold in the US is produced by Bacardi, causing an ongoing trademark dispute. The world has two types of Havana Club, one which is the US product and the other is the non-US product, produced by different companies.
29. Sugar beet, one of the world's main sources of sugar, was first put into large-scale cultivation by Napoleon Bonaparte after France lost Haiti in a slave revolt and was blockaded by the British.
30. About 99.9% of Americans have never tasted the blackcurrant berry due to sanctions put in place by the US government in 1911 because of its role in spreading disease among white pines, which at that time was a principle industry of the growing American republic.
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31Commission For Relief In Belgium
During World War 1, Germany refused to feed occupied Belgium, which was blockaded and unable to fulfill its food demands. In response, Herbert Hoover established the Commission for Relief in Belgium. The commission shipped 5.7 million tons of food and fed 11 million Belgians between 1914 and 1919.
32. During the 1973-1974 oil embargo, national highway speed limits were lowered to 55 mph in an attempt to force Americans to drive at speeds deemed more fuel-efficient.
33. North Korea and Cuba are the only countries that don't sell Coca-Cola due to trade embargoes imposed on them by the United States. Cuba has been under long-term trade embargo since 1962 and North Korea since 1950.
34. Towards the end of World War 2, Japanese troops resorted to using hand grenades made out of porcelain due to steel shortages they were facing from Allied bombings and naval blockades.
35. Bosnia was put at a great disadvantage due to the arms embargo it was put under during the Bosnian War (1992-1995). U.S. Allies in Europe blocked proposals to remove the embargo as they considered including Bosnia in European Union to be "unnatural," as it would have be the only Muslim nation in union.
