List of wars 1945–1989

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Contents 1 1945–1949 2 1950–1959 3 1960–1969 4 1970–1979 5 1980 - 1989 6 References

[edit] 1945–1949

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents
			Victorious party (if applicable)	Defeated party (if applicable)
1945	1949	Indonesian National Revolution	Indonesia	Netherlands
1946	1954	First Indochina War	Viet Minh Supported by: People's Republic of China Soviet Union	French Union French Fourth Republic State of Vietnam Cambodia Kingdom of Laos Supported by: United States United Kingdom Australia
1946	1949	Greek Civil War	National Army Supported By: United States United Kingdom	Democratic Army of Greece N.O.F Partisans Supported by: Soviet Union People's Republic of Albania
1947	1947	Paraguayan Civil War	Government of Paraguay	Blanco-party
1947	1948	Indo-Pakistani War of 1947	Pakistan	India Jammu and Kashmir (princely state)
1947	1948	1947-1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine	Haganah Palmach Irgun Lehi	Holy War Army Arab Liberation Army
1948	1949	1948 Arab-Israeli War	Israel	Egypt  Syria  Jordan  Lebanon Iraq Saudi Arabia [1] Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen[2] Holy War Army Arab Liberation Army
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 King's African Rifles Nepali Gurkhas	Malayan Communist Party Malayan Races Liberation Army
1948	1948	Operation Polo	India	Royal State of Hyderabad

[edit] 1950–1959

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents
			Victorious party (if applicable)	Defeated party (if applicable)
1950	1953 (de facto) Ongoing (de jure)	Korean War	North Korea  People's Republic of China  Soviet Union	South Korea  United Nations
1950	1951	Invasion of Tibet (1950-1951)	People's Republic of China	Tibetan Army
1952	1956	Tunisian War of Independence	Beylik of Tunis	France
1952	1960	Mau Mau Uprising	United Kingdom	Mau Mau
1953	1959	Cuban Revolution	26th of July Movement	Batista Government
1953	1975	Laotian Civil War	Pathet Lao Democratic Republic of Vietnam Soviet Union Peoples Republic of China	Kingdom of Laos  United States  Thailand Republic of Vietnam  Philippines
1954	1962	Algerian War	National Liberation Front Mouvement National Algerien	France
1955	1972	First Sudanese Civil War
1956	1956	Hungarian Revolution of 1956	Soviet Union  Hungary State Protection Authority	Ad hoc Local Militias
1956	1957	Suez Crisis	United Kingdom  France  Israel	Egypt
1959	1975	Vietnam War	North Vietnam Viet Cong Khmer Rouge Pathet Lao  People's Republic of China  Soviet Union  North Korea	South Vietnam  United States  South Korea  Australia  Philippines  New Zealand Khmer Republic  Thailand Kingdom of Laos[citation needed] Republic of China
1959	Ongoing	ETA's campaign of terror

[edit] 1960–1969

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents
			Victorious party (if applicable)	Defeated party (if applicable)
1960	1966	Congo Crisis
1960	1996	Guatemalan Civil War	Guerrilla Army of the Poor Revolutionary Organization of Armed People Rebel Armed Forces Guatemalan Labor Party (1960–1982) Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (1982–1996)	Government of Guatemala
1961	1961	Bay of Pigs Invasion	Cuba	United States Cuban exiles
1961	1991	Eritrean War of Independence	ELF EPLF	Ethiopia Cuba Soviet Union
1961	1964	Tuareg Rebellion (1961–1964)	Military of Mali	Tuareg guerrillas
1961	1961	Invasion of Goa	India	Portugal
1961	1975	Angolan War of Independence part of the Portuguese Colonial War	National Liberation Front of Angola UNITA MPLA Eastern Revolt Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda	Portugal Union of South Africa
1962	1970	North Yemen Civil War	Yemen Arab Republic Egypt	Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen Saudi Arabia
1962	1962	Sino-Indian War	China	India
1962	1966	Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation	Malaysia United Kingdom Australia New Zealand	Indonesia
1962	1975	Dhofar Rebellion	Oman Iran United Kingdom Jordan	Dhofar Liberation Front(DLF) Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf(PFLOAG) Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman(PFLO)
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	Rhodesia South Africa Zimbabwe Rhodesia (1979) FROLIZI (1978-1979)	ZANLA ( ZANU ) ZIPRA ( ZAPU ) FRELIMO FROLIZI (1971-1978) Umkhonto we Sizwe
1964	Ongoing	Colombian armed conflict (1964-present)
1964	1974 (cease fire) 1975 (independence)	Mozambican War of Independence part of the Portuguese Colonial War	FRELIMO	Portugal
1965	1966	1965 United States occupation of the Dominican Republic	United States Inter-American Peace Force:  Brazil  Honduras  Paraguay  Nicaragua  Costa Rica  El Salvador	Dominican Republic
1965	1965	Indo-Pakistani War of 1965	India	Pakistan
1965	1979	Civil war in Chad (1965–1979)
1966	1989	South African Border War	Angola Cuba SWAPO Zambia Umkhonto we Sizwe	South Africa UNITA Argentina United States
1966	1988	Namibian War of Independence	SWAPO	Union of South Africa
1967	1989	Communist Insurgency War	Malaysia	Malaysian Communist Party
1967	1967	Six-Day War	Israel	Egypt Syria Jordan Iraq Saudi Arabia Morocco Algeria Tunisia Sudan
1967	1975	Cambodian Civil War	National United Front of Kampuchea Khmer Rouge North Vietnam Viet Cong	Khmer Republic United States South Vietnam
1967	1970	Nigerian Civil War	Nigeria	Biafra Republic of Benin
1967	1967	Chola incident	India	China
1967	1970	War of Attrition	Israel	Egypt Soviet Union Jordan Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
1968	1998	The Troubles
1968	1968	Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia	Soviet Union People's Republic of Bulgaria East Germany People's Republic of Hungary People's Republic of Poland	Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
1969	Ongoing	Insurgency in the Philippines
1969	1969	Football War	El Salvador	Honduras
1969	1969	Sino-Soviet border conflict	Soviet Union	China

[edit] 1970–1979

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents
			Victorious party (if applicable)	Defeated party (if applicable)
1971	1971	Bangladesh Liberation War	Mukti Bahini India	Pakistan
1971	1971	Indo-Pakistani War of 1971	India	Pakistan
1973	1973	Yom Kippur War	Israel	Egypt Syria Iraq
1973	1991	Western Sahara War	Spanish State (1973-1975) Mauritania (1975-1979) Morocco (1979-1991) French Air Force (1978)	Polisario Front
1974	1974	Turkish invasion of Cyprus	Turkey	Cyprus Greece
1974	1991	Ethiopian Civil War	Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement Tigray People's Liberation Front Eritrean People's Liberation Front Oromo Liberation Front Western Somali Liberation Front Eritrean Liberation Front Afar Liberation Front Ethiopian Democratic Union Ogaden National Liberation Front	Government of Ethiopia Cuba (1987-1991)
1975	2002	Angolan Civil War	MPLA Cuba Angolan Armed Forces Mozambique Soviet Union	UNITA FNLA South Africa Zaire United States
1975	1990	Lebanese Civil War	Lebanese Front Syria (1975-1978) Israel South Lebanon Army	Lebanese National Movement PLO Syria (1978-1990)
1975	1989	Cambodian-Vietnamese War	Vietnam Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation	Democratic Kampuchea
1975	1975	Conflict in Laos involving the Hmong	Laos Vietnam	Hmong Insurgents
1975	1975	Indonesian invasion of East Timor	Indonesia	FRETILIN FALINTIL
1975	1999	Indonesian occupation of East Timor
1976	1983	Dirty War
1976	2005	Insurgency in Aceh	Indonesia	Free Aceh Movement
1977	1992	Mozambican Civil War
1977	1977	Libyan-Egyptian War	Egypt	Libya
1977	1978	Ogaden War	Ethiopia Cuba Soviet Union South Yemen	Somalia
1978	1978	1978 South Lebanon conflict	Israel	PLO
1978	1979	Uganda-Tanzania War	Tanzania Uganda National Liberation Army	Uganda Libya
1978	1987	Chadian-Libyan conflict	Chad France	Libya
1978	Ongoing	Turkey–Kurdistan Workers' Party conflict
1979	1979	Sino-Vietnamese War	Vietnam	People's Republic of China Khmer Rouge
1979	1982	Civil war in Chad (1979-1982)
1979	1989	Soviet war in Afghanistan	Mujahideen Supported By: Pakistan United States Saudi Arabia Iran Egypt United Kingdom People's Republic of China	Soviet Union Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

[edit] 1980 - 1989

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents
			Victorious party (if applicable)	Defeated party (if applicable)
1980	1992	Salvadoran Civil War	Government of El Salvador	FMLN FDR ERP RN PRTC
1980	2000	Internal conflict in Peru
1980	1988	Iran-Iraq War	Iran Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq Islamic Movement of Kurdistan Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq	Iraq Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran Komalah People's Mujahedin of Iran Arab League
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	1982 Lebanon War	Israel South Lebanon Army Lebanese Armed Forces	PLO Syria Hezbollah Lebanon Communist Party Amal Movement Syrian Social Nationalist Party
1982	2000	South Lebanon conflict (1982–2000)
1982	1982	1982 Ethiopian-Somali Border War	Somalia	Ethiopia Somali Salvation Democratic Front
1983	1983	Invasion of Grenada	United States Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Dominica Jamaica Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Grenada Cuba Supported By: North Korea Soviet Union People's Republic of Bulgaria East Germany Libya
1983	2009	Sri Lankan Civil War	Sri Lanka Indian Peace Keeping Force (1987-1990)	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
1983	2005	Second Sudanese Civil War	Sudan People's Liberation Army Eastern Front	Sudan Lord's Resistance Army
1985	1985	Agacher Strip War	Mali	Burkina Faso
1987	1991	First Intifada	Israel	Palestinian dissidents
1987	1988	Thai-Laotian Border War	Thailand	Laos
1987	2009	Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
1988	1994	Nagorno-Karabakh War	Nagorno-Karabakh Armenia	Azerbaijan
1989	1991	Mauritania-Senegal Border War	Mauritania	Senegal
1989	1990	United States invasion of Panama	United States	Panama
1989	1992	Civil war in Afghanistan (1989-1992)	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
1989	Ongoing	Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir

• Technically, the Korean War is still ongoing, due to the lack of a peace treaty. However, the status is currently that of a "cold war", with few military operations conducted since 1953.

[edit] References

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