The British blockade prevented food and raw materials from reaching the Central Powers. Germany’s ships from entering their own ports. Germany from collaborating with the Central Powers countries. ships from leaving German ports to fight the Allies.

Aguiding principle of the national response framework is that: a. response partners use nonstandard structures to allow for flexible and scalable responses. b. unity of effort results when responding agencies are willing to relinquish their authorities. c. effective partnership relies on engaging all elements of the whole community. d. readiness to act encourages response partners to self-dispatch to an incident scene.