1945–1949 Start Finish Name of Conflict Belligerents Victorious party (if applicable) Defeated party (if applicable) 1945 1946 War in Vietnam (1945–46) United Kingdom British Raj France Japan Viet Minh 1945 1949 Indonesian National Revolution Indonesia Netherlands United Kingdom 1945 1946 Iran crisis of 1946 Iran Republic of Mahabad Azerbaijan Peoples Republic 1946 1954 First Indochina War Viet Minh Pathet Lao Khmer Issarak United Issarak Front French Union French Fourth Republic State of Vietnam Cambodia Kingdom of Laos 1946 1949 Greek Civil War Kingdom of Greece Hellenic Army United Kingdom Provisional Democratic Government DSE badge.svg DSE NOF partisans 1947 1947 Paraguayan Civil War Paraguayan Government Military of Paraguay Colorado Party Liberal Party PRF PCP 1947 1948 Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 1947 1948 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine Jews of Palestine Haganah Irgun Lehi Arabs of Palestine Army of the Holy War Arab Liberation Army 1948 1950 Pre-Korean War insurgency[1] South Korea 1948 1949 1948 Arab–Israeli War Israel Egypt Iraq Transjordan Syria HWA ALA Lebanon 1948 1948 Costa Rican Civil War National Liberation Army Government of Costa Rica 1948 Ongoing Internal conflict in Burma 1948 1960 Malayan Emergency United Kingdom Australia New Zealand Federation of Malaya Southern Rhodesia Fiji Kings African Rifles Nepali Gurkhas CPM MRLA 1948 1948 Operation Polo India Royal State of Hyderabad 1950–1959 Start Finish Name of Conflict Belligerents Victorious party (if applicable) Defeated party (if applicable) 1950 1951 Invasion of Tibet Peoples Republic of China Tibet 1950 1953 (de facto) Ongoing (de jure)[2] Korean War 1950 1958 Kuomintang Islamic insurgency in China (1950–58) Peoples Republic of China Republic of China 1950 1967 Retribution operations Israel Palestinian fedayeen Egypt Jordan Syria 1952 1960 Mau Mau Uprising United Kingdom Mau Mau 1953 1953 28 Mordad coup Supporters of M. Reza Pahlavi CIA MI6 Supporters of Mosaddegh National Front 1953 1959 Cuban Revolution 26th of July Movement Batista Government 1953 1975 Laotian Civil War Pathet Lao North Vietnam Kingdom of Laos United States of America Thailand South Vietnam 1954 1959 Jebel Akhdar War Sultanate of Muscat and Oman Ibriyin tribe Imamate of Oman Ibadi sect 1954 1962 Algerian War FLN MNA PCA France OAS FAF 1955 1972 First Sudanese Civil War SSLM AZL Anyanya Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Republic of the Sudan Democratic Republic of the Sudan 1955 1975 Vietnam War North Vietnam FNL Khmer Rouge Khmer Issarak Pathet Lao North Korea South Vietnam United States of America South Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand Kingdom of Laos Khmer Republic 1956 1956 Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Soviet Union State Protection Authority Hungarian revolutionaries 1956 1956 Suez Crisis Israel[3] United Kingdom France Egypt[4] 1957 1958 Ifni War Spain France Morocco 1958 1959 North Vietnamese invasion of Laos Part of the Vietnam War and the Laotian Civil War North Vietnam Kingdom of Laos 1959 1959 1959 Tibetan uprising Peoples Republic of China Tibet Chushi Gangdruk 1959 2011 Basque conflict Spain GAL AAA BVE France ETA Basque National Liberation Movement ETA (pm) Iparretarrak 1960–1969 Start Finish Name of Conflict Belligerents Victorious party (if applicable) Defeated party (if applicable) 1960 1961 Campaign at the China–Burma Border China Burma National Revolutionary Army 1960 1966 Congo Crisis 1960 1996 Guatemalan Civil War Guatemalan military URNG 1961 1990 Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 1970 First Iraqi–Kurdish War KDP Republic of Iraq Syrian Arab Republic 1961 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion Cuba United States of America Cuban exiles 1961 1961 Bizerte crisis France Tunisia 1961 1991 Eritrean War of Independence EPLF ELF Ethiopia Cuba Soviet Union South Yemen 1961 1961 Invasion of Goa India Portugal 1961 1975 Angolan War of Independence Part of the Portuguese Colonial War FNLA UNITA MPLA FLEC Portugal South Africa 1962 1964 Tuareg rebellion (1962–64) Mali Tuareg guerrillas 1962 1970 North Yemen Civil War Yemen Arab Republic Egypt (until 1967) Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen Supported by: Saudi Arabia Jordan European Mercenaries 1962 1962 Sino-Indian War China India 1962 1976 Dhofar Rebellion Oman Iran United Kingdom Jordan Dhofar Liberation Front Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman 1963 1966 Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation Malaysia United Kingdom Australia New Zealand Indonesia 1963 1967 Shifta War Kenya Northern Frontier District Liberation Movement Somalia 1963 1963 Sand War Morocco Algeria 1963 1974 Guinea-Bissau War of Independence Part of the Portuguese Colonial War PAIGC Portugal 1964 1979 Rhodesian Bush War ZANU FRELIMO ZAPU MK Rhodesia Zimbabwe Rhodesia 1964 Ongoing Colombian conflict (1964–present) 1964 1974 Mozambican War of Independence Part of the Portuguese Colonial War FRELIMO Portugal 1964 Ongoing Insurgency in Northeast India 1964 1964 Zanzibar Revolution Afro-Shirazi Party Umma Party Sultanate of Zanzibar 1965 1965 Dominican Civil War (CEFA) Dominican Armed Forces Training Center (SIM) Dominican Military Intelligence Service United States of America (IAPF) Inter-American Peace Force Dominican Armed Forces Constitutionalists PRD partisans 1965 1966 U.S. occupation of the Dominican Republic (1965–66) United States of America Inter-American Peace Force: Brazil Honduras Paraguay Nicaragua Costa Rica El Salvador Dominican Republic 1965 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 1965 1979 Chadian Civil War (1965–79) National Liberation Front of Chad 1966 1969 Korean DMZ Conflict (1966–69) 1966 1989 South African Border War Angola Cuba SWAPO Zambia Umkhonto we Sizwe South Africa UNITA 1966 1990 Namibian War of Independence Part of the South African Border War SWAPO South Africa 1967 1967 Six-Day War Israel Egypt Syria Jordan Arab Expeditionary Forces: Iraq Saudi Arabia Morocco Algeria Libya Kuwait Tunisia Sudan PLO Other declared nations: Mauritania (1967-1999) 1967 1975 Cambodian Civil War National United Front of Kampuchea Khmer Rouge North Vietnam Viet Cong Khmer Republic United States of America South Vietnam 1967 1970 Nigerian Civil War Nigeria Biafra 1967 1970 War of Attrition 1967 Ongoing Naxalite–Maoist insurgency 1968 1989 Communist Insurgency War Malaysia Thailand Malayan Communist Party 1968 1998 The Troubles United Kingdom PIRA 1968 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia Soviet Union Peoples Republic of Bulgaria East Germany Peoples Republic of Hungary Peoples Republic of Poland Czechoslovak Socialist Republic 1969 Ongoing Civil conflict in the Philippines 1969 Ongoing Insurgency of the Communist Party of the Philippines 1969 2014 Moro insurgency in the Philippines 1969 1969 Football War El Salvador Honduras 1969 1969 Sino-Soviet border conflict Soviet Union China 1969 Ongoing Papua conflict 1970–1979 Start Finish Name of Conflict Belligerents Victorious party (if applicable) Defeated party (if applicable) 1970 1971 Black September in Jordan Jordan PLO Syria 1971 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War Mukti Bahini India Pakistan 1971 1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 India Pakistan 1972 1974 First Eritrean Civil War EPLF ELF 1973 1973 Yom Kippur War Israel Egypt Syria Iraq Jordan Libya Algeria Saudi Arabia Kuwait Tunisia Cuba North Korea 1974 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus Turkey Cyprus Greece 1974 1991 Ethiopian Civil War EPRP Official Logo.gif EPRP TPLF MEISON ANDM EDUP OLF ONLF WSLF ALF Ethiopian government Cuba East Germany Soviet Union North Korea Libya 1974 1975 Second Iraqi–Kurdish War Baathist Iraq KDP 1975 2002 Angolan Civil War MPLA Cuba Soviet Union SWAPO MK FNLA UNITA South Africa FLEC Zaire[5] 1975 1991 Western Sahara War Morocco Mauritania (1975–1979) France (1977–1978) Polisario Front Algeria (1976) 1975 1990 Lebanese Civil War Syria PLA ADF LNM (until 1982) LNRF (from 1982) Amal LCP SSNP PLO (1978-1983) Hezbollah LF Syria (until 1976) Tigers Militia ALZ Israel (1982) SLA United States of America France Italy 1975 1989 Cambodian–Vietnamese War Vietnam FUNSK Democratic Kampuchea 1975 2007 Insurgency in Laos Laos Vietnam Hmong insurgents 1975 1975 Indonesian invasion of East Timor Indonesia FRETILIN / Falintil 1976 1983 Dirty War Argentina 1976 2005 Insurgency in Aceh Indonesia Free Aceh Movement 1977 1992 Mozambican Civil War FRELIMO RENAMO 1977 1977 Libyan–Egyptian War Egypt Libya 1977 1978 Ethio-Somali War Ethiopia Cuba South Yemen Soviet Union Somalia 1977 1977 Shaba I Zaire Morocco Egypt France FNLC 1978 1978 Shaba II Zaire France Belgium FNLC 1978 1979 Uganda–Tanzania War Tanzania UNLA Mozambique Uganda Libya PLO 1978 1987 Chadian–Libyan conflict CAF France FAN FANT Libya FROLINAT GUNT 1978 Ongoing Kurdish–Turkish conflict Turkey KDP PUK PKK KCK PJAK KDP/North 1978 1982 NDF Rebellion 1979 1979 Yemenite War of 1979 1979 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War 1979 1990 Sino-Vietnamese conflicts 1979–90 1979 1983 1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran Iran KDP-I 1979 1989 Soviet war in Afghanistan Peshawar Seven Tehran Eight AMFFF Soviet Union Democratic Republic of Afghanistan 1979 1992 Salvadoran Civil War Salvadoran government FMLN RN 1980–1989 Start Finish Name of Conflict Belligerents Victorious party (if applicable) Defeated party (if applicable) 1980 2000 Internal conflict in Peru Peru Rondas Campesinas Shining Path Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement 1980 1988 Iran–Iraq War Both sides claimed victory 1980 1981 Second Eritrean Civil War Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front Eritrean Liberation Front 1981 1981 Paquisha War Peru Ecuador 1981 1986 Ugandan Bush War National Resistance Army (guerrilla rebels) Uganda National Liberation Army (the national army of Uganda) 1982 1982 Falklands War United Kingdom Argentina 1982 1982 Ndogboyosoi War Sierra Leone SLPP 1982 1985 1982 Lebanon War Israel Lebanese Front SLA PLO Syria LNRF 1982 1982 1982 Ethiopian–Somali Border War Somalia Ethiopia Somali Salvation Democratic Front 1983 1983 Invasion of Grenada United States of America Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Dominica Jamaica Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Grenada Cuba 1983 2009 Sri Lankan Civil War Sri Lanka India (1987–1990) Tamil Tigers 1983 2005 Second Sudanese Civil War SPLA SPLA-Nasir SSLM Anyanya II Eastern Coalition Sudan SSDF Janjaweed LRA 1983 1988 Kurdish rebellion of 1983 Part of the Iran–Iraq War 1984 1987 Siachen conflict India Pakistan 1985 1985 Agacher Strip War Mali Burkina Faso 1986 1986 South Yemen Civil War 1987 1987 1987 Sino-Indian skirmish 1987 1988 Thai–Laotian Border War Laos Vietnam Thailand 1987 Ongoing Lords Resistance Army insurgency 1988 1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War Nagorno-Karabakh Armenia Azerbaijan 1989 1991 Mauritania–Senegal Border War Mauritania Senegal 1989 1990 U.S. invasion of Panama United States of America Panama 1989 1992 Civil war in Afghanistan (1989–92) Mujahideen Democratic Republic of Afghanistan 1989 1989 Romanian Revolution of 1989 Anti-Ceauşescu protestors Romanian Army Dissident members of the Communist Party Socialist Republic of Romania Securitate and other loyalist forces 1989 1996 First Liberian Civil War National Patriotic Front of Liberia Armed Forces of Liberia ULIMO United Nations Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia 1989 Ongoing Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
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