Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Contents
1 1945–1949
2 1950–1959
3 1960–1969
4 1970–1979
5 1980–1989
6 References
1945–1949
Belligerents
Start Finish Name of Conflict Victorious party (if
Defeated party (if applicable)
applicable)
1945 Ongoing Korean conflict
United Kingdom
India
1945 1946 War in Vietnam (1945–46) Viet Minh
France
Japan
Netherlands
Indonesian National Indonesia
1945 1949 United Kingdom (until 1946)
Revolution
Japan (until 1946)
Republic of Mahabad
1945 1946 Iran crisis of 1946 Iran
Azerbaijan People's Republic
French Union
Viet Minh
French Fourth
Pathet Lao
Republic
First Indochina War Khmer Issarak
1946 1954 State of Vietnam
Indochina Wars United Issarak Front
Cambodia
Soviet Union
Kingdom of Laos
China
United States
Provisional Democratic
Kingdom of Greece Government
Madiun Affair
People's Democratic Front
1948 1948 Part of the Indonesian Indonesia
Indonesian Socialist Party
National Revolution
1948 1948 Operation Polo India Royal State of Hyderabad
National Liberation
1948 1948 Costa Rican Civil War Government of Costa Rica
Army
1948 1948 Yeosu–Suncheon rebellion South Korea Communist Rebels
1948 1949 Jeju uprising South Korea Workers' Party of South Korea
Pre-Korean War
1948 1950 South Korea
insurgency[1]
Egypt
Iraq
1948 Arab–Israeli War Transjordan
1948 1949 Part of the Arab–Israeli Israel Syria
conflict HWA
ALA
Lebanon
Anti-government factions:
KNLA
DKBA (since 2010)
Mujahideen
Communist Party (1948–
1988)
Supported by:
ROC (1948–1980s)
Thailand
United States
PRC
1950–1959
Belligerents
Start Finish Name of Conflict Victorious party (if
Defeated party (if applicable)
applicable)
People's Republic of
1950 1950 Battle of Chamdo Tibet
China
Makassar Uprising
1950 1950 Part of the Indonesian National Indonesia Ambonese Veterans
Revolution
APRA coup d'état
Indonesia
1950 1950 Part of the Indonesian National Legion of Ratu Adil
Netherlands
Revolution
Puerto Rican Nationalist
1950 1950 Utuado Uprising United States
Party
Puerto Rican Nationalist
1950 1950 San Juan Nationalist revolt United States
Party
Puerto Rican Nationalist
1950 1950 Jayuya Uprising United States
Party
UN Command:
South Korea
United States
United
Kingdom
Australia
Belgium
Canada
France North Korea
Philippines China
Colombia Soviet Union
Ethiopia Medical support
Korean War Greece
1950 1953[2] Bulgaria
Part of the Korean conflict Luxembourg Czechoslovakia[3]
Netherlands
Hungary
New Zealand
Poland
South Africa
Romania[4]
Thailand
Turkey
Medical support
Denmark
India
Italy
Norway
Sweden
People's Republic of
1950 1958 Kuomintang Islamic insurgency Republic of China
China
1951 1951 Manhattan Rebellion Thailand Rebel naval units
1952 1960 Mau Mau Uprising United Kingdom Mau Mau
26th of July
1953 1959 Cuban Revolution Batista Government
Movement
1954 1954 Coup d'état of Yanaon Indian Separatists French India
1954 1954 Annexation of Dadra and Nagar India Portugal
Haveli
Kingdom of Laos
Pathet Lao United States
1953 1975 Laotian Civil War
North Vietnam Thailand
South Vietnam
Sultanate of Muscat
Imamate of Oman
and Oman
1954 1959 Jebel Akhdar War
Ibadi sect
Ibriyin tribe
France
FLN
1954 1962 Algerian War MNA
OAS
PCA
FAF
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
SSLM
Republic of the Sudan
1955 1972 First Sudanese Civil War AZL
Anyanya
Democratic Republic of
the Sudan
South Vietnam
North Vietnam United States
FNL South Korea
Khmer Rouge Thailand
1955 1975 Vietnam War Khmer Issarak Australia
Pathet Lao New Zealand
China Kingdom of Laos
North Korea Khmer Republic
Turkey (Medical Support)
1956 1956 Quỳnh Lưu Uprising North Vietnam Anti-communist rebels
People's Republic of
1956 1956 Poznań Uprising Strike Committee
Poland
Soviet Union
1956 1956 Hungarian Revolution of 1956 State Protection Hungarian revolutionaries
Authority
Israel[5]
1956 1956 Suez Crisis United Kingdom Egypt[6]
France
Spain
1957 1958 Ifni War Morocco
France
INM
LCP
Lebanon
1958 1958 1958 Lebanon crisis
United States
PSP
1960–1969
Belligerents
Start Finish Name of Conflict Victorious party (if
Defeated party (if applicable)
applicable)
1960 1960 1960 Ethiopian coup attempt Ethiopian Empire Kebur Zabangna
People's Republic of
Campaign at the China–
1960 1961 China National Revolutionary Army
Burma Border
Burma
1960–63:
Republic of the
Congo
Supported by:
Soviet Union (1960)
1960–63:
ONUC
Ghana Katanga
Tunisia South Kasai
Morocco
Ethiopian Supported by:
Empire Belgium
Republic of France
Ireland Union of South Africa
Guinea
1960 1965 Congo Crisis Rhodesia
Sweden
1960–62:
Mali
Stanleyville government
Sudan
Liberia 1964–65:
Canada Simba and Kwilu rebels
India
Indonesia Supported by:
United Arab Soviet Union
Republic
China
Cuba
1964-65:
Democratic Republic
of the Congo Supported
by:
United States
Belgium
FDLR
Self-defence groups Mai Mai Yakutumba
Red Brigades
Front Line
October 22 Group
PAC
Continuous Struggle
PO
AO
Far-right terrorist
National Vanguard
Black Order
NAR
Third Position
Soviet Union
People's Republic of
Bulgaria
Warsaw Pact invasion of East Germany Czechoslovak Socialist
1968 1968
Czechoslovakia People's Republic of Republic
Hungary
People's Republic of
Poland
Communists:
Communist Party
NPA
NDF
Philippines Makabayan
RSM
JI
BIFF
CPP
* NPA
MLPP-
RHB [11]
APP [11]
Philippines RPA [11]
Insurgency of the United States[10] ABB [11]
1969 Ongoing Communist Party of the Anti-communist militia CPLA [11]
Philippines
Alsa Masa (1986–?)
Support:
People's Republic of China
(1969–1976)
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
(1980s–2011)
North Korea (Alleged)
Vietnam (1980s)
Supported by:
al-Qaeda[23]
14K Triad (to ASG) [24][25]
Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant[26]
Abu Sayyaf[27][28]
1970–1979
Belligerents
Start Finish Name of Conflict Defeated party (if
Victorious party (if applicable)
applicable)
PLO
1970 1971 Black September in Jordan Jordan
Syria
Christian Democracy
Italian Social
Movement
Italian Social
Democratic Party
1970 1972 Reggio revolt Italy National Italian
Workers' Union
Italian General
Confederation of
Labour
'Ndrangheta
Party of the Poor
Mexico
1970 1982 Dirty War (Mexico) Liga Comunista 23 de
USA
Septiembre
Provisional Government of
Bangladesh Liberation War
1971 1971 Bangladesh Pakistan
Indo-Pakistani Wars
India
1971 Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
1971 1972 Ceylon JVP
Insurrection
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
1971 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and India[29][30][31] Pakistan
the Indo-Pakistani Wars
1972 1974 First Eritrean Civil War EPLF ELF
Gonobahini
1972-1975 Bangladesh
1972 1975 Bangladesh Bangladesh Purba Banglar
insurgency
Sarbahara Party
Egypt
Syria
Combat support:
Iraq
1973 1973 Yom Kippur War Israel Jordan
Algeria[32]
Cuba[33][34]
Morocco[35]
Revolutionary Left
Movement
Armed resistance in Chile (1973– Manuel Rodríguez
1973 1990 Chile
90) Patriotic Front
Lautaro Youth
Movement
1973 Ongoing Oromo Conflict Ethiopian Empire (1973– OLF
1975) IFLO
Derg (1975–1987) OIM
PDRE (1987–1991) COPLF
Transitional Government of OYRM
Ethiopia (1991–1995)
Ethiopia (1995–present)
Cyprus
1974 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus Turkey
Greece
1974 1974 Battle of the Paracel Islands China South Vietnam
EPRP
TPLF
Ethiopian
MEISON
government
ANDM
Cuba
1974 1991 Ethiopian Civil War East Germany
EDUP
Soviet Union
OLF
North Korea
ONLF
Libya
WSLF
ALF
1974 1975 Second Iraqi–Kurdish War Ba'athist Iraq KDP
MPLA
FNLA
Cuba
UNITA
Soviet Union
South Africa
East Germany
1975 2002 Angolan Civil War FLEC
SWAPO
Zaire
MK
United States
Vietnam
China
Portugal
Angola
Cuba
1975 Ongoing Cabinda War FLEC
East Germany
Soviet Union
Western Sahara War Morocco
Polisario Front
1975 1991 Part of the Western Sahara Mauritania (1975–1979)
Algeria (1976)
conflict France (1977–1978)
PUK
1975 1979 PUK insurgency Iraq
KDP
LF Syria
Syria (until 1976) PLA
ADF
Tigers Militia
ALZ LNM (until 1982)
LNRF (from 1982)
1975 1990 Lebanese Civil War
Israel (1982) Amal
SLA LCP
SSNP
United States PLO (1978–1983)
France
Italy Hezbollah
Democratic
Vietnam Kampuchea
1975 1989 Cambodian–Vietnamese War
FUNSK Thailand
United States
1975 2007 Insurgency in Laos Laos Hmong insurgents
Vietnam United States
Indonesian invasion of East FRETILIN /
1975 1975 Indonesia
Timor Falintil
Montoneros
1976 1983 Dirty War Argentina
ERP
Free Aceh
1976 2005 Insurgency in Aceh Indonesia
Movement
Right-wing groups:
Left-wing groups:
Political violence in Turkey TKP/ML (TİKKO)
1976 1980
(1976–80) THKO
Grey Wolves (MHP)
Devrimci Yol
Turkey PKK
KCK
1978 Ongoing Turkey–PKK conflict KDP
PJAK
PUK
KDP/North
1978 1982 NDF Rebellion North Yemen NDF
1979 1979 Grand Mosque seizure Saudi Arabia al-Ikhwan
Democratic Republic of
1979 1979 1979 Herat uprising Army mutineers
Afghanistan
South Yemen
1979 1979 Yemenite War of 1979 North Yemen
NDF
1979 1979 1979 Khuzestan uprising Iran APCO
DRFLA
PFLA
AFLA
1980–1989
Belligerents
Start Finish Name of Conflict Victorious party (if
Defeated party (if applicable)
applicable)
1980 1980 Gwangju Uprising South Korea Gwangju Settlement Committees
1980 1980 Nojeh coup plot Iran Royalist Officers
Shining Path
Peru
1980 Ongoing Internal conflict in Peru Túpac Amaru Revolutionary
Rondas Campesinas
Movement
Iraq
1980 1988 Iran–Iraq War Iran
MEK
Eritrean People's
1980 1981 Second Eritrean Civil War Eritrean Liberation Front
Liberation Front
TKP/ML-TİKKO
MKP-HKO-PHG
MLKP
Maoist insurgency in
1980 Ongoing Turkey
Turkey
Maoist Party Centre
THKP-C
(Dissolved)
THKO
(Dissolved)
1981 1981 Paquisha War Peru Ecuador
1981 Gambian coup d'état Gambia
1981 1981 National Revolutionary Council
attempt Senegal
1981 1981 1981 Entumbane Uprising Zimbabwe ZIPRA
National Resistance Uganda National Liberation
1981 1986 Ugandan Bush War
Army Army
Senegal
Movement of Democratic
1982 Ongoing Casamance conflict Gambia
Forces of Casamance
Guinea-Bissau
1982 1982 Falklands War United Kingdom Argentina
1982 1982 1982 Amol uprising Iran Union of Iranian Communists
1982 1982 Ndogboyosoi War Sierra Leone SLPP
PLO
Israel Syria
1982 Lebanon War
1982 2000 SLA Hezbollah
Security Zone conflict
Lebanese Front Jammoul
Amal
Ethiopia
1982 Ethiopian–Somali
1982 1982 Somalia Somali Salvation
Border War
Democratic Front
1983 1983 Invasion of Grenada United States Grenada
Antigua and Barbuda Cuba
Barbados
Dominica
Jamaica
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines
Sri Lanka
1983 2009 Sri Lankan Civil War Tamil Tigers
India (1987–1990)
SPLA
Sudan
SPLA-Nasir
SSDF
1983 2005 Second Sudanese Civil War SSLM
Janjaweed
Anyanya II
LRA
Eastern Coalition
Kurdish rebellion of 1983 KDP
1983 1985 Iraq
Part of the Iran–Iraq War PUK
1984 1987 Siachen conflict India[36][37][38] Pakistan
1985 1985 Agacher Strip War Mali Burkina Faso
Abdul Fattah Ismail's Ali Nasir Muhammad's
1986 1986 South Yemen Civil War
faction faction
1986 1992 Suriname Guerrilla War Suriname Junglecommando
Tucayana Amazonas
1986 1989 Suriname Tucayana Amazonas
Insurgency
1987 1991 Singing Revolution
Laos
1987 1988 Thai–Laotian Border War Thailand
Vietnam
1987 1989 1987–89 JVP insurrection Sri Lanka JVP
Uganda
South Sudan
Lord's Resistance Army Democratic Republic of
1987 Ongoing Lord's Resistance Army
insurgency the Congo
MONUC
Central African Republic
Bougainville
1988 1998 Bougainville Civil War Papua New Guinea
Revolutionary Army
Nagorno-Karabakh
1988 1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War Azerbaijan
Armenia
Mauritania–Senegal Border
1989 1991 Mauritania Senegal
War
United States invasion of
1989 1990 United States Panama
Panama
Civil war in Afghanistan
(1989–92) Democratic Republic of
1989 1992 Mujahideen
part of the war in Afghanistan
afghanistan(1978-present)
Anti-Ceaușescu
Socialist Republic of
protestors
Romanian Revolution of Romania
1989 1989 Romanian Army
1989 Securitate and other loyalist
Dissident members of the
forces
Communist Party
1989 1996 First Liberian Civil War National Patriotic Front of Armed Forces of Liberia
Liberia ULIMO
United Nations
Independent National Patriotic
Front of Liberia
KDPI insurgency (1989–
1989 1996 Government of Iran KDP-I
96)
Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Jaish-e-Mohammed
Insurgency in Jammu and
Hizbul Mujahideen
1989 Ongoing Kashmir India
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen
Part of the Kashmir conflict
Al-Badr
Jammu Kashmir Liberation
Front
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