List of conflicts related to the Cold War
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While the Cold War itself never escalated into direct confrontation, there were a number of conflicts related to the Cold War around the globe, spanning the entirety of the period usually prescribed to it (March 12, 1947 to December 26, 1991, a total of 44 years, 9 months, and 2 weeks).[1][2]
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Since 1940s[]
Conflict | Start date | End date | Location | Region |
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Dekemvriana | December 3, 1944 | January 11, 1945 | Kingdom of Greece | Southern Europe |
Anti-Communist resistance in Poland | 1944 | 1947 (1963) | Polish People's Republic | Central Europe |
Insurgency in the Baltic States | 1944 | 1953 | Estonia Latvia Lithuania | Northeastern Europe |
Indonesian National Revolution | August 17, 1945 | December 27, 1949 | Dutch East Indies | Southeast Asia |
War in Vietnam (1945–46) | September 13, 1945 | March 30, 1946 | French Indochina | Southeast Asia |
Iran crisis of 1946 | November 15, 1945 | December 15, 1946 | Iran | Southern Asia |
Greek Civil War | March 30, 1946 | October 16, 1949 | Kingdom of Greece | Southern Europe |
Corfu Channel incident | May 15, 1946 | November 13, 1946 | Straits of Corfu | Southern Europe |
Chinese Civil War (post-WWII) | March 31, 1946 | May 1, 1950 | China | Eastern Asia |
Hukbalahap Rebellion | July 4, 1946 | May 17, 1954 | Philippines | Southeast Asia |
First Indochina War | December 19, 1946 | August 1, 1954 | State of Vietnam Viet Minh |
Southeast Asia |
Paraguayan Civil War | March 7, 1947 | August 20, 1947 | Paraguay | South America |
Romanian anti-communist resistance movement | 1947 | 1962 | Romania | Central Europe |
1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état | February 20, 1948 | February 25, 1948 | Czechoslovakia | Central Europe |
Costa Rican Civil War | March 12, 1948 | April 24, 1948 | Costa Rica | Central America |
Jeju uprising | April 3, 1948 | May, 1949 | South Korea | Eastern Asia |
Arab–Israeli conflict (from 1948–1991) | May 15, 1948 | Present | Israel Palestine |
Western Asia |
Malayan Emergency | June 16, 1948 | July 12, 1960 | Federation of Malaya | Southeast Asia |
Berlin Blockade | June 24, 1948 | May 12, 1949 | Allied-occupied Germany | Western Europe |
Since 1950s[]
Conflict | Start date | End date | Location | Region |
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Korean War | June 25, 1950 | July 27, 1953 | North Korea South Korea |
Eastern Asia |
Egyptian Revolution of 1952 | July 22, 1952 | July 26, 1952 | Kingdom of Egypt | North Africa |
Plzeň uprising of 1953 | May 31, 1952 | June 2, 1952 | Czechoslovakia | Central Europe |
Uprising of 1953 in East Germany | June 16, 1953 | June 17, 1953 | East Germany | Eastern Europe |
Cuban Revolution | July 26, 1953 | January 1, 1959 | Cuba | Caribbean |
1953 Iranian coup d'état | August 15, 1953 | August 20, 1953 | Iran | Southern Asia |
Laotian Civil War | November 9, 1953 | December 2, 1975 | Kingdom of Laos | Southeast Asia |
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état | June 18, 1954 | June 27, 1954 | Guatemala | Central America |
First Taiwan Strait Crisis | September 3, 1954 | May 1, 1955 | Taiwan Strait | Eastern Asia |
Algerian War | November 1, 1954 | March 19, 1962 | French Algeria | North Africa |
Vietnam War | November 1, 1955 | April 30, 1975 | North Vietnam South Vietnam |
Southeast Asia |
Poznań 1956 protests | June 28, 1956 | June 30, 1956 | Polish People's Republic | Central Europe |
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 | October 23, 1956 | November 10, 1956 | Hungarian People's Republic | Central Europe |
Suez Crisis | October 29, 1956 | November 7, 1956 | Egypt | North Africa |
Ifni War | October 23, 1957 | June 30, 1958 | Spanish State Morocco |
North Africa |
14 July Revolution | July 14, 1958 | July 14, 1958 | Arab Federation | Western Asia |
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis | August 23, 1958 | October 6, 1958 | Taiwan Strait | Eastern Asia |
1959 Mosul uprising | March 7, 1959 | March 11, 1959 | Iraqi Republic | Western Asia |
1959 Tibetan uprising | March 10, 1959 | March 21, 1959 | Tibet | Central Asia |
Since 1960s[]
Conflict | Start date | End date | Location | Region |
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1960 U-2 incident | May 1, 1960 | May 1, 1960 | Soviet Union | Eastern Europe |
Congo Crisis | June 30, 1960 | November 25, 1965 | Congo | Central Africa |
Guatemalan Civil War | November 13, 1960 | December 19, 1996 | Guatemala | Central America |
Portuguese Colonial War | February 4, 1961 | April 25, 1974 | Portuguese Angola Portuguese Mozambique Portuguese Guinea |
Western/Southern Africa |
Angolan War of Independence | February 4, 1961 | January 15, 1975 | Portuguese Angola | Southern Africa |
Bay of Pigs Invasion | April 17, 1961 | April 19, 1961 | Cuba | Caribbean |
Berlin Crisis of 1961 | June 4, 1961 | November 9, 1961 | East Germany | Western Europe |
Nicaraguan Revolution | July 23, 1961 | April 25, 1990 | Nicaragua | Central America |
Eritrean War of Independence | September 1, 1961 | May 29, 1991 | Ethiopia | Eastern Africa |
Operation Trikora | December 19, 1961 | August 15, 1962 | Dutch New Guinea | Southeast Asia |
North Yemen Civil War | September 26, 1962 | December 1, 1970 | North Yemen | Western Asia |
Cuban Missile Crisis | October 14, 1962 | October 28, 1962 | Cuba | Caribbean |
Sino-Indian War | October 20, 1962 | November 21, 1962 | China/India border | Southern Asia |
Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation | January 20, 1963 | August 11, 1966 | Indonesian-Malaysian borders | Southeast Asia |
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence | January 23, 1963 | September 11, 1974 | Portuguese Guinea | Western Africa |
Ar-Rashid revolt | July 3, 1963 | July 3, 1963 | Iraqi Republic | Western Asia |
1964 Brazilian coup d'état | March 31, 1964 | April 1, 1964 | Brazil | South America |
Rhodesian Bush War | March 31, 1964 | December 12, 1979 | Rhodesia | Southern Africa |
Mexican Dirty War | December 1, 1964 | December 1, 1982 | Mexico | North America |
Mozambican War of Independence | September 25, 1964 | September 8, 1974 | Portuguese Mozambique | Eastern Africa |
Colombian conflict | May 27, 1964 | Present | Colombia | South America |
Communist insurgency in Thailand | January 1, 1965 | April 26, 1983 | Thailand | Southeast Asia |
Dominican Civil War | April 24, 1965 | September 3, 1965 | Dominican Republic | Caribbean |
United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1965–66) | April 28, 1965 | July 1, 1966 | Dominican Republic | Caribbean |
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 | August 15, 1965 | September 23, 1965 | India | Indian subcontinent |
30 September Movement | September 30, 1965 | October 1, 1965 | Indonesia | Southeast Asia |
Indonesian killings of 1965–66 | October 1, 1965 | March 1966 | Indonesia | Southeast Asia |
Cultural Revolution | May 16, 1966 | October 6, 1976 | China | Eastern Asia |
South African Border War | August 26, 1966 | March 21, 1990 | South-West Africa Angola |
Southern Africa |
Ñancahuazú Guerrilla | November 3, 1966 | October 9, 1967 | Bolivia | South America |
Cambodian Civil War | March 11, 1967 | April 17, 1975 | Cambodia | Southeast Asia |
Greek military junta of 1967–74 | April 21, 1967 | July 23, 1974 | Greece | Southern Europe |
Six-Day War | June 5, 1967 | June 10, 1967 | Egypt Syria Jordan Israel |
Western Asia |
War of Attrition | July 1, 1967 | August 7, 1970 | Sinai Peninsula | Western Asia |
Communist Insurgency in Malaysia | June 17, 1968 | December 2, 1989 | Malaysia | Southeast Asia |
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia | August 20, 1968 | August 21, 1968 | Czechoslovakia | Eastern Europe |
Sino-Soviet border conflict | March 2, 1969 | September 11, 1969 | China / Soviet Union border | Eastern Asia |
1969 Sudanese coup d'état | May 25, 1969 | May 25, 1969 | Sudan | North Africa |
1969 Libyan coup d'état | September 1, 1969 | September 1, 1969 | Libya | North Africa |
1969 Somali coup d'état | October 21, 1969 | October 21, 1969 | Somalia | Eastern Africa |
Since 1970s[]
Conflict | Start date | End date | Location | Region |
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Black September in Jordan | September 1, 1970 | July 1971 | Jordan | Western Asia |
First Quarter Storm | January 1970 | March 1970 | Philippines | Southeast Asia |
Bangladesh Liberation War | March 26, 1971 | December 16, 1971 | Bangladesh | Southern Asia |
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 | December 3, 1971 | December 16, 1971 | Bangladesh Pakistan |
Southern Asia |
1973 Chilean coup d'état | September 11, 1973 | September 11, 1973 | Chile | South America |
Armed resistance in Chile (1973–90) | September 11, 1973 | March 11, 1990 | Chile | South America |
Yom Kippur War | October 6, 1973 | October 25, 1973 | Egypt Syria Israel |
Western Asia |
Ethiopian Civil War | November 28, 1974 | May 21, 1991 | Ethiopia | Eastern Africa |
Operation Independence | February 5, 1975 | September 28, 1977 | Argentina | South America |
Lebanese Civil War | April 13, 1975 | October 13, 1990 | Lebanon | Near East |
Angolan Civil War | November 11, 1975 | April 4, 2002 | Angola | Southern Africa |
Indonesian invasion of East Timor | December 7, 1975 | July 17, 1976 | East Timor | Southeast Asia |
Operation Entebbe | July 4, 1976 | July 4, 1976 | Uganda | Western Africa |
1976 Argentine coup d'état | March 24, 1976 | March 24, 1976 | Argentina | South America |
Insurgency in Aceh | December 4, 1976 | August 15, 2005 | Aceh | Southeast Asia |
Shaba I | March 8, 1977 | May 26, 1977 | Zaire (present day Democratic Republic of the Congo) | Central Africa |
Mozambican Civil War | May 30, 1977 | October 15, 1992 | Mozambique | Southern Africa |
1977 Seychelles coup d'état | June 4, 1977 | June 5, 1977 | Seychelles | East Africa |
Operation Fair Play | July 5, 1977 | July 5, 1977 | Pakistan | South Asia |
Ethio-Somali War | July 13, 1977 | March 15, 1978 | Ethiopia | Eastern Africa |
Shaba II | May 11, 1978 | June 1978 | Zaire (present day Democratic Republic of the Congo) | Central Africa |
Korean Air Lines Flight 902 | April 20, 1978 | April 20, 1978 | Soviet Union | Eastern Europe |
Cambodian–Vietnamese War | December 21, 1978 | September 26, 1989 | Cambodia Vietnam Thailand |
Southeast Asia |
Iranian Revolution | January 16, 1979 | February 1979 | Iran | Southern Asia |
Sino-Vietnamese War | February 17, 1979 | March 16, 1979 | China / Vietnam border | Southeast Asia |
Salvadoran Civil War | May 9, 1979 | January 16, 1992 | El Salvador | Central America |
Soviet–Afghan War | December 24, 1979 | February 15, 1989 | Afghanistan | Central Asia |
Since 1980s[]
Conflict | Start date | End date | Location | Region |
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Internal conflict in Peru | May 17, 1980 | Present | Peru | South America |
Iran–Iraq War | September 22, 1980 | August 20, 1988 | Iran Ba'athist Iraq |
Persian Gulf |
Falklands War | April 2, 1982 | June 14, 1982 | Falklands Islands, disputed between United Kingdom and Argentina | South America |
1982 Ethiopian–Somali Border War | June 23, 1982 | August 3, 1982 | Somalia | Eastern Africa |
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 | September 1, 1983 | September 1, 1983 | Soviet Union | Eastern Asia |
Invasion of Grenada | October 25, 1983 | December 15, 1983 | Grenada | Caribbean |
People Power Revolution | February 22, 1986 | February 25, 1986 | Philippines | Asia |
1986 United States bombing of Libya | April 15, 1986 | April 15, 1986 | Libya | North Africa |
Brașov rebellion | November 15, 1987 | November 15, 1987 | Romania | Central Europe |
8888 Uprising | March 12, 1988 | September 21, 1988 | Burma | Asia |
Afghan Civil War | February 15, 1989 | April 27, 1992 | Afghanistan | Central Asia |
Revolutions of 1989 | March 9, 1989 | April 27, 1992 | Countries of the Eastern Bloc and Warsaw Pact | Central/Eastern Europe |
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 | April 15, 1989 | June 4, 1989 | China | Eastern Asia |
Velvet Revolution | November 17, 1989 | December 29, 1989 | Czechoslovakia | Central Europe |
Mongolian Revolution of 1990 | December 10, 1989 | March 9, 1990 | Mongolia | Central Asia |
United States invasion of Panama | December 20, 1989 | January 31, 1990 | Panama | Central America |
Romanian Revolution | December 16, 1989 | December 25, 1989 | Romania | Central Europe |
Since 1990s[]
Conflict | Start date | End date | Location | Region |
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Gulf War | August 2, 1990 | February 28, 1991 | Kuwait | Western Asia |
Yugoslav Wars | March 31, 1991 | November 12, 2001 | Yugoslavia | Eastern Europe |
1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt | August 19, 1991 | August 21, 1991 | Soviet Union | Eastern Europe |
See also[]
History of Communism (September 3, 1945 - December 31, 1992)
List of wars 1945-1989
References[]
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