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List of wars: 1900–1944

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1900-1919

1900-1919
Start Finish Name of Conflict Belligerents
Victorious party (if applicable) Defeated party (if applicable)
1901 1902 Anglo-Aro War  United Kingdom Aro Confederacy
1902 1925 War of Unification of Saudi Arabia Sultanate of Nejd
Allied Arab clans
Rashidi State
 Ottoman Empire
File:Hejaz flag1.gif Kingdom of Hejaz
1903 1904 British expedition to Tibet
1904 1905 Russo-Japanese War  Empire of Japan  Russian Empire
Montenegro Principality of Montenegro
1904 1909 Black Patch War  United States
1905 1905 1905 Russian Revolution  Russian Empire Russia Revolutionaries
1906 1909 Pig War Serbia Kingdom of Serbia Austria-Hungary Austro-Hungarian Empire
1907 1907 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt  Kingdom of Romania
1908 1909 Moroccan War  Morocco
1908 1909 Persian Civil War  Iran
1909 1910 Second Rif War  Spain  Morocco
1909 1911 Nicaraguan Civil War  Nicaragua Nicaragua Nicaraguan Conservative Rebals
 United States
1909 1911 Wadai War  France Ouaddai Empire
1910 1921 Mexican Revolution  Mexico
1911 1912 Second Franco-Moroccan War  France  Morocco
1911 1912 Italo-Turkish War  Kingdom of Italy  Ottoman Empire
1912 1913 First Balkan War Bulgaria Kingdom of Bulgaria
Greece Kingdom of Greece
Serbia Kingdom of Serbia
Montenegro Kingdom of Montenegro
 Ottoman Empire
1912 1916 Contestado War Brazil Brazillian Governists Rebels
1913 1913 Second Balkan War  Ottoman Empire
Greece Kingdom of Greece
Serbia Kingdom of Serbia
Montenegro Kingdom of Montenegro
Bulgaria Kingdom of Bulgaria
1914 1918
(de facto)

1919
(de jure)
World War I Triple Entente:

Belgium Kingdom of Belgium
 Kingdom of Serbia
 France
 Russian Empire (until March 1917)
United Kingdom British Empire
Italy Kingdom of Italy (from April 1915)
United States United States (from 1917)
Montenegro Kingdom of Montenegro
 Empire of Japan
Portugal Portuguese Republic (from March 1916)
Romania Kingdom of Romania (August 1916-May 1918)
Greece Kingdom of Greece (from June 1917)
Albania Albania
Brazil Brazil (from October 1917)
Armenia Armenia (from May 1918)
Bohemia Czechoslovakia
Finland Finland (from October 1918r)
Thailand Kingdom of Siam
San Marino San Marino (from June 1915)
 China (from August 1917)

Central Powers:

Austria-Hungary Austro-Hungarian Empire
 German Empire (including German colonial forces)
 Ottoman Empire
Bulgaria Kingdom of Bulgaria

1915 1934 United States occupation of Haiti  United States
 Haiti
 Haiti
1917 1917 1917 Russian Revolution Bolsheviks  Russian Empire
Russia Mensheviks
1917 1922 Russian Civil War Communist Forces:

 Russian SFSR
Ukrainian SSR
Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine

 Russian Empire

Central Powers (until 1918):
Austria-Hungary Austro-Hungarian Empire
 German Empire (including German colonial forces)
 Ottoman Empire
Allied Forces (from 1918):
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
 China
 Estonia
Finland Finland
France France
Greece Greece
Italy Kingdom of Italy
Empire of Japan Empire of Japan
 Latvia
 Lithuania
Poland Poland
 Kingdom of Romania
 Kingdom of Serbia
United Kingdom United Kingdom
 Australia
 Canada
 United States

1917 1918 Soviet-Turkish War
Part of Russian Civil War
 Ottoman Empire  Russian SFSR
1918 1918 Finnish Civil War
Part of Russian Civil War
Finnish White Guards
 German Empire
Finnish Communists
 Russian SFSR
1918 1918 Georgian-Armenian War Democratic Republic of Georgia Democratic Republic of Armenia
1918 1919 German Revolution  German Empire

 Weimar Republic

Communist Forces:

Bavarian Soviet Republic
Spartacus League
German Communist movements

1918 1919 Greater Poland Uprising Poland Poland  German Empire
1918 1919 Polish-Ukrainian War Poland Poland Ukraine West Ukrainian People's Republic
1918 1920 Georgian-Ossetian Conflict Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic

Democratic Republic of Georgia

Pro-Bolshevik Ossetian rebels

 Russian SFSR

1918 1920 Armenian-Azerbaijani War  Azerbaijan Democratic Republic

 Ottoman Empire (1918 only)
 Russian SFSR (from April 1920)
Turkey Turkish Revolutionaries (from April 1920)

 Democratic Republic of Armenia

Republic of Artsakh Republic of Mountainous Armenia
Republic of Artsakh Nagorno-Karabakh rebels
United Kingdom British Empire (1918 only)
Centrocaspian Dictatorship (1918 only)

1918 1920 Estonian War of Independence  Estonia

Russia White Russia
 Latvia
 United Kingdom
 Ingria
Ober Ost
Finnish, Swedish and Danish volunteers

 Russian SFSR

File:Estonianworkerscommuneflag.gif Estonian Commune
 Latvian SSR

1918 1920 Latvian War of Independence Latvia Latvia

Estonia Estonia
Poland Poland
 United Kingdom
France France

 Russian SFSR

 Latvian SSR

1918 1920 Lithuanian War of Independence  Lithuania

Baltic nobility

 Russian SFSR

Lithuanian-Byelorussian SSR

1919-1929

1919-1929
Start Finish Name of Conflict Belligerents
Victorious party (if applicable) Defeated party (if applicable)
1919 1919 Poland–Czechoslovakia War  Czechoslovakia Poland Poland
1919 1919 Hungarian–Romanian War  Romania Hungarian Soviet Republic
1919 1923 Turkish War of Independence Turkey Turkish Nationalists Occupation Forces:

United Kingdom British Empire
Greece Kingdom of Greece
France France
Italy Kingdom of Italy
Armenia Democratic Republic of Armenia
 Ottoman Empire

1919 1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War  Afghanistan United Kingdom British Empire

India India

1919 1919 Portuguese Monarchist Civil War Portugal Portuguese Republican Party Portugal Kingdom of Portugal
1919 1920 Italo-Yugoslav War Italy Kingdom of Italy

Free State of Fiume

 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
1919 1921 Polish-Soviet War Poland Republic of Poland

Ukraine Ukrainian People's Republic

 Russian SFSR

Ukrainian SSR

1919 1919 First Silesian Uprising Germany Weimer Republic Poland Silesian Rebels
1919 1920 Hungarian Revolutionary War Little Entente:

 Czechoslovakia
 Kingdom of Romania
France France

Hungarian Soviet Republic

Slovak Soviet Republic

1919 1921 Franco-Syrian War France

French Syria

Arab Revolt Syrian Rebels
1919 1921 Irish War of Independence Republic of Ireland Irish Republic  United Kingdom
1919 1922 Greco-Turkish War Turkish Revolutionaries Kingdom of Greece
1919 1926 Third Rif War France France

Spain Spain

Republic of the Rif
1920 1920 Polish-Lithuanian War Poland Poland Lithuania Lithuania
1920 1920 Second Silesian Uprising Germany Weimer Republic Poland German civil government and police of Upper Silesia
1920 1920 Turkish-Armenian War Turkish Revolutionaries Democratic Republic of Armenia
1920 1920 Zhili-Anhui War Zhili clique

File:Flag of Manchuria autonomists (1922).png Fengtian clique

Anhui clique
1920 1921 Guangdong–Guangxi War Old Guangxi clique Chinese Revolutionary Party
1921 1921 Soviet-Georgian War  Russian SFSR

Turkey Turkish revolutionaries

Democratic Republic of Georgia
1921 1921 Third Silesian Uprising Germany Weimer Republic Poland Silesian Rebels

Poland Poland

1921 1922 East Karelian Uprising  Russian SFSR Finnish and East Karelian rebels
1922 1922 First Zhili-Fengtian War Zhili clique File:Flag of Manchuria autonomists (1922).png Fengtian clique
1922 1923 Irish Civil War Republic of Ireland Pro-treaty forces Republic of Ireland Anti-treaty forces
1924 1924 August Uprising  Soviet Union Committee for Independence of Georgia
1924 1924 Second Saud–Sharif War Saudi Arabia

United Kingdom British Empire

Hejaz
1924 1924 Second Zhili-Fengtian War File:Flag of Manchuria autonomists (1922).png Fengtian clique Zhili clique
1925 1925 The Incident at Petrich Bulgaria Kingdom of Bulgaria Greece Kingdom of Greece
1926 1928 Northern Expeditionary War  Republic of China Beiyang Government
1927 1933 Nicaraguan Civil War Nicaragua Governmental forces

 United States

Nicaragua Rebels
1927 1949 Chinese Civil War Communist Party of China  Republic of China
1928 1929 Afghan Civil War Barakzai dynasty

Tribal supporters
United Kingdom British Empire (from 1929)

Tribal rebels

Forces of Habibullah Ghazi

1929 1929 Sino-Soviet War of 1929  Soviet Union  Republic of China
1929 1930 Igbo Women's War Igbo Women of Owerri and Calabar Provinces Warrent Chiefs

United Kingdom British Colonial Forces

1930-1944

1930-1944
Start Finish Name of Conflict Belligerents
Victorious party (if applicable) Defeated party (if applicable)
1930 1930 Central Plains War

Part of Chinese Civil War

Taiwan Forces of Chiang Kai-shek Taiwan Forces of the coalition of Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang and Li Zongren
1931 1932 Japanese invasion of Manchuria  Empire of Japan  Republic of China
1932 1932 Ecuadorian Civil War  Ecuador
1932 1932 Shanghai War of 1932  Republic of China  Empire of Japan
1932 1935 Chaco War  Paraguay  Bolivia
1932 1935 Colombia-Peru War  Peru  Colombia
1934 1934 Austrian Civil War Austria First Austrian Republic

Fatherland's Front

File:SDAPÖ logo.PNG Social Democratic Party of Austria
1934 1934 Saudi-Yemeni War Saudi Arabia Yemen
1935 1936 Second Italo-Abyssinian War Italy Kingdom of Italy Ethiopia Ethiopian Empire
1936 1939 Spanish Civil War Spain Nationalist Spain

Italy Kingdom of Italy
Germany Germany
Portugal Portugal

Spain Spanish Republic

International Brigades
 Soviet Union
 Mexico

1937 1945 Second Sino-Japanese War
Part of World War II
 Republic of China

Communist Party of China
 United States (from 1941)
United Kingdom British Empire (from 1941)

 Empire of Japan

 Manchukuo

1938 1938 Changkufeng Incident  Soviet Union  Manchukuo

 Empire of Japan

1939 1939 Hungarian Invasion of the Carpatho-Ukraine Hungary Kingdom of Hungary Ukraine Carpatho-Ukraine
1939 1939 Slovak-Hungarian War Hungary Kingdom of Hungary Slovak Republic
1939 1939 Italian invasion of Albania Italy Kingdom of Italy Albania Albanian Kingdom
1939 1939 Soviet-Japanese Border War (1939)  Soviet Union

Mongolia Mongolia

 Empire of Japan
 Manchukuo
1939 1945 World War II Allied Powers:

From 1939
Poland Poland
 Australia
France France
 New Zealand
United Kingdom British Empire
 Nepal
South Africa Union of South Africa
 Canada
 Czechoslovakia (government-in-exile)
From 1940
 Norway
 Belgium
 Luxembourg
 Netherlands
 Free France
Greece Kingdom of Greece
 Kingdom of Yugoslavia
From 1941
 Soviet Union
 Panama
 Costa Rica
 Dominican Republic
 El Salvador
 Haiti
Honduras
 Nicaragua
 United States
 Republic of China
 Guatemala
 Cuba
Philippines Philippines
From 1942
 Indian Empire
 Mexico
 Brazil
Ethiopia Ethiopia
From 1943
Iraq Iraq
 Bolivia
 Colombia
Iran Iran
Yugoslavia
From 1944
 Liberia
 Peru
 Kingdom of Italy (formerly a member of the Axis)
 Kingdom of Romania (formerly a member of the Axis)
Bulgaria (formerly a member of the Axis)
 San Marino (formerly a member of the Axis)
Albania
1945 Only
 Ecuador
Paraguay
 Uruguay
 Venezuela
 Turkey
 Egypt
 Lebanon
Syria
Saudi Arabia
 Argentina
 Chile

Axis Powers:

 Germany
 Kingdom of Italy (Mussolini was murdered, because Italy never wanted to be in the war in the first place)
 Hungary (from 1940)
 Empire of Japan (from 1941)
 Bulgaria (1940-1944)

 Kingdom of Romania (1941-1944)
Non-Axis Co-belligerents:
 Manchukuo
 Mengjiang
 Finland (1941-1944)
Iraq Kingdom of Iraq (1941 only)
 Thailand (1942-1945)

1939 1940 Winter War
Part of World War II
 Finland  Soviet Union
1940 1941 French-Thai War
Part of World War II
France Vichy France

 French Indochina

 Thailand
1941 1942 Ecuadorian-Peruvian War  Peru  Ecuador
1941 1941 Anglo-Iraqi War
Part of World War II
 United Kingdom

India India
State of Palestine Palestine

Iraq Kingdom of Iraq

Nazi Germany Germany
Italy Kingdom of Italy

1941 1944 Continuation War
Part of World War II
 Soviet Union

 United Kingdom

 Finland

 Germany
 Kingdom of Italy

1944 1949 Greek Civil War Greece Kingdom of Greece North Macedonia N.O.F. partisans

Democratic Army of Greece

1944 1945 Lapland War  Finland  Germany
1944 1953 Guerilla War in the Baltic states  Soviet Union The Forest Brothers