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

1945–1949

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Location(s)	Fatalities
August 1945	August 23, 1949	Indonesian National Revolution	Indonesia	70,000 - 200,000[1]
December 1946	August 1, 1954	Vietnamese War of Independence	French Indochina	~394,591
March 1947	August 11, 1947	Paraguayan Civil War	Paraguay	unknown
October 1947	December 31, 1948	Indo-Pakistani War of 1947	India and  Pakistan	3,288
November 1947	May 14, 1948	Palestinian Civil War	British Palestine	~4,200
May 1948	June 20, 1949	1948 Arab-Israeli War	Israel	12,000 - 19,000
March 1948	April 24, 1948	Costa Rican Civil War	Costa Rica	2,000
April 1948	Ongoing	Kayin State Conflict	Kayin and Burma	~7,000
June 1948	July 12, 1960	Malayan Emergency	Malaya,  Singapore, and  Vietnam	11,053

1950–1959

Start	Finish	War	Location	Death toll
June 1950	July 27, 1953	Korean War	North Korea and South Korea	~2,670,172
October 1950	March 10, 1951	PLA Invasion of Tibet	Tibet	~85,000
May 1952	November 18, 1956	Tunisian War of Independence	Tunisia	unknown
June 1952	January 11, 1960	Mau Mau Uprising	Kenya	11,138 - 61,185
July 1953	January 1, 1959	Cuban Revolution	Cuba	unknown
November 1954	March 19, 1962	Algerian War of Independence	Algeria	~169,000
August 1955	March 29, 1972	First Sudanese Civil War	Sudan	~500,000
October 1956	November 10, 1956	Hungarian Uprising	Hungary	3,222
October 1956	March 22, 1957	Sinai Campaign	Egypt	913
January 1959	April 30, 1975	Vietnam War	Vietnam	5,100,000

1960–1969

Start	Finish	War	Location	Death toll
June 1960	November 22, 1965	Congo Crisis	Democratic Republic of the Congo	unknown
November 1960	January 7, 1996	Guatemalan Civil War	Guatemala	unknown
April 1961	April 19, 1961	Bay of Pigs Invasion	Cuba	291 - 1,480
September 1961	May 29, 1991	Eritrean War of Independence	Eritrea	230,000 - 655,000
November 1961	August 11, 1974	Portuguese Colonial War	Angola, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique	~140,790
December 1961	October 3, 1964	Tuareg Rebellion of Mali	Mali	unknown
December 1961	December 19, 1961	Invasion of Goa	India	37 - 52
August 1962	May 15, 1975	Laotian Civil War	Laos	~1,200
September 1962	February 20, 1970	Yemen Civil War	Yemen	100,000
October 1962	November 21, 1962	Sino-Indian War	India and China	~4,588
December 1962	May 28, 1966	Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation	Indonesia and Malaysia	unknown
December 1962	July 2, 1975	Dhofar Rebellion	Oman	~500
January 1963	October 17, 1967	Shifta War	Kenya	unknown
October 1963	October 12, 1963	Sand War	Algeria and Morocco	unknown
July 1964	April 24, 1979	Rhodesian Bush War	Rhodesia	~30,000
August 1964	Ongoing	Colombian Armed Conflict	Colombia	~3,000,000
April 1965	September 15, 1966	Operation Power Pack	Dominican Republic	~3,533
August 1965	September 21, 1965	Indo-Pakistani War of 1965	India and Pakistan	11,064 - 15,064
December 1965	April 1, 1989	South African Border War	Namibia and Angola	unknown
March 1966	May 4, 1988	Namibian War of Independence	Namibia	unknown
February 1967	December 2, 1989	Communist Insurgency War	Malaysia	unknown
June 1967	June 10, 1967	Six-Day War	Israel,  Egypt,  Jordan, and  Syria	~21,779
June 1967	April 1, 1975	Cambodian Civil War	Cambodia and Khmer Republic	~600,000
July 1967	January 13, 1970	Nigerian Civil War	Nigeria	~1,200,000
October 1967	October 2, 1967	Chola incident	India	unknown
June 1968	Ongoing	The Troubles	Ireland and Northern Ireland	~4,050
January 1968	August 21, 1968	Prague Spring	Czechoslovakia	unknown
June 1968	August 7, 1970	War of Attrition	Israel	~6,554
July 1969	Ongoing	Communist and Islamic insurgency in the Philippines	Philippines	~160,000+
July 1969	July 18, 1969	100 Hours War	El Salvador and Honduras	1,900
March 1969	September 11, 1969	Sino-Soviet border conflict	China and Soviet Union	~858

1970–1979

Start	Finish	War	Location	Death toll
March 1971	December 16, 1971	Bangladesh Liberation War	Bangladesh	~74,000
December 1971	December 16, 1971	Indo-Pakistani War of 1971	Pakistan and  India	~100,000
October 1973	October 26, 1973	Yom Kippur War	Egypt,  Israel, and  Syria	~11,184 - 17,656
May 1973	September 6, 1991	Western Sahara War	Morocco	unknown
November 1973	November 17, 1973	Athens Polytechnic uprising	Greece	24
July 1974	August 20, 1974	Turkish Invasion of Cyprus	Cyprus	~1,000
November 1974	September 21, 2002	Angolan Civil War	Angola	~800,000
March 1975	April 25, 1991	Ethiopian Civil War	Ethiopia	~250,000
March 1975	May 19, 1991	Lebanese Civil War	Lebanon	~80,000
May 1975	December 8, 1989	Cambodian–Vietnamese War	Cambodia and  Vietnam	~50,000
August 1975	1975	The Secret War	Laos	2,000 - 3,000
December 1975	December 12, 1978	Invasion of East Timor	East Timor	~150,000
July 1976	December 15, 1983	Dirty War	Argentina	~25,000
December 1976	August 15, 2005	Insurgency in Aceh	Indonesia and  Aceh	~10,000
April 1977	October 25, 2002	Mozambican Civil War	Mozambique	~900,000
July 1977	July 24, 1977	Libyan-Egyptian War	Libya and  Egypt	unknown
July 1977	March 15, 1978	Ogaden War	Ethiopia,  Somalia, and  Yemen	~32,000
March 1978	March 14, 1978	Southern Lebanon conflict	Lebanon	~2,000
October 1978	April 11, 1979	Uganda–Tanzania War	Libya,  Tanzania, and  Uganda	unknown
December 1978	January 6, 1987	Chadian–Libyan conflict	Libya and  Chad	2,000 - 5,000
February 1979	March 16, 1979	Sino-Vietnamese War	China and  Vietnam	~122,000
February 1979	June 7, 1982	First Civil War of Chad	Chad	~10,000
December 1979	February 15, 1989	Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan	Afghanistan	~1,015,000

1980 - 1989

Start	Finish	War	Location	Death toll
May 1980	November 16, 1992	Salvadoran Civil War	El Salvador	~75,000
May 1980	October 13, 2000	Internal Conflict in Peru	Peru	~70,000
September 1980	August 20, 1988	Iran–Iraq War	Iran and  Iraq	~1,300,000
January 1981	February 24, 1981	Paquisha War	Peru and  Ecuador	unknown
February 1981	July 27, 1986	Luwero War	Uganda	unknown
April 1982	June 14, 1982	War of the South Atlantic	Falkland Islands	~900
June 1982	September 30, 1982	Israeli Invasion of Lebanon	Lebanon	~10,000
June 1982	August 6, 1982	Ethiopian-Somalian Border War	Somalia	unknown
October 1983	December 15, 1983	Invasion of Grenada	Grenada	89
1983	Ongoing	Sri Lankan Civil War	Sri Lanka	~70,000
1983	2005	Second Sudanese Civil War	Sudan	~1,000,000
1984	Ongoing	Kurdish insurgency in Turkey	Turkey and  Kurdistan	unknown
1984	1984	Siachin War	Pakistan and  India	unknown
1985	1985	Agacher Strip War	Mali and  Burkina Faso	187
1987	1993	First Intifada	Israel and  Palestine	2,162
1987	1988	Thai–Laotian Border War	Thailand and  Laos	~1,000
1987	Ongoing	Second Ugandan Civil War	Uganda	unknown
1988	2006	Somali Civil War	Somalia	300,000 - 400,000
1988	1994	Nagorno-Karabakh war	Armenia and  Azerbaijan	~36,000
1989	1991	Mauritania-Senegal Border War	Mauritania and  Senegal	~500
1989	1990	U.S. Invasion of Panama	Panama	~5,000
1989	2001	First Afghan Civil War	Afghanistan	~100,000
1989	1989	Romanian Revolution	Romania	1,104
1989	1996	First Liberian Civil War	Liberia	unknown
1989	2006	Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir	India	~60,000

References

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