List of proxy wars

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Colonial America

• King William's War, 1689–1697
• Queen Anne's War, 1702–1713
• King George's War, 1744–1748
• French and Indian War, 1754–1763

Pre–World War 2

• Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1860
• Samoan Civil War, 1898–1899
• Finnish Civil War, 1918
• Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
• Chinese Civil war, 1927–1950

Cold War

• Greek Civil War, 1946–1949
• Malaysian Emergency, 1948–1960
• Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948–Present
• Korean War, 1950–1953
• Suez Crisis, 1956–1957
• Cuban Revolution, 1953–1959
• 1959 Tibetan uprising, 1959–1973
• Laotian Civil War, 1953–1975
• Vietnam War, 1957–1975
• Guatemalan Civil War, 1960–1996
• Congo Crisis, 1960–1965
• Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1961
• Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
• Angolan Civil War, 1974–2002
• Ogaden War, 1977–1978
• Afghan-Soviet War, 1979–1989
• Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979
• Iran-Iraq war, 1980–1988
• Invasion of Grenada, 1983
• Nicaraguan Civil War, 1979–1990
• Salvadoran Civil War, 1980–1992

Post Cold War and War on Terror

• Second Congo War, 1998–2003
• Iraq War, 2003–2010
• War in Somalia, 2006–2009
• 2006 Lebanon War, 2006
• Gaza War, 2008–2009

Kashmir Conflict

(Pakistan vs. India)

• Kargil War, 1999