WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The blockade strategy worked effectively. As a memorandum to the War Cabinet on 1 January 1917 stated, very few supplies were reaching Germany or its allies-either through the North Sea or through other areas such as Austria’s Adriatic ports, subject to a French blockade since the first month of the war.

Detailed explanation-2: -Early war German submarines had such light armament that they could be outgunned by even a lightly armed merchantman. Another British countermeasure was the creation of vessels known as Q-ships. These vessels were merchantmen equipped with concealed guns that would attack any enemy submarine that approached them.

Detailed explanation-3: -Germany tried to cut off supplies reaching the Entente, ultimately resorting to submarine warfare. The question of the causal relationship between civilian mortality and the blockade remains to be answered. Before 1914, economic warfare was the British government’s main strategic concept in case of European war.

Detailed explanation-4: -Britain’s blockade across the North Sea and the English Channel cut the flow of war supplies, food, and fuel to Germany during World War I. Germany retaliated by using its submarines to destroy neutral ships that were supplying the Allies.

Detailed explanation-5: -A wish to retaliate and to break Britain’s command of the seas motivated Germany to launch its campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917. The result was to make the blockade even more complete, by provoking the United States to join the Allies.

Detailed explanation-6: -One U-boat would shadow a convoy and summon others by radio, and then the group would attack, generally on the surface at night. These tactics succeeded until radar came to the aid of the escorts and until convoys could be given continuous sea and air escort all the way across the Atlantic in both directions.