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== 1945-1949 ==
Start Finish Name of Conflict Location(s) Fatalities
1945 1949 Indonesian National Revolution Indonesia 74,057-204,057
19 December 1946 1 August 1954 Vietnamese War of Independence French Indochina ~394,591
March 1947 August 1947 Paraguayan Civil War Paraguay unknown
21 October 1947 31 December 1948 Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 Kashmir 3,288
30 November 1947 14 May 1948 Palestinian Civil War British Palestine unknown
15 May 1948 20 June 1949 Israeli War of Independence Israel 12,000-19,000
12 March 1948 24 April 1948 Costa Rican Civil War Costa Rica 2,000
April 1948 Ongoing Internal conflict in Myanmar Myanmar/Burma ~7,000
June 1948 12 July 1960 Malayan Emergency Southeast Asia 11,053

1950-1959

Start Finish War Location Death toll
25 June 1950 27 July 1953 Korean War Korean Peninsula 4,039,000-5,039,000
1950 1951 PLA Invasion of Tibet Tibet unknown
1952 1956 Tunisian War of Independence Tunisia unknown
1952 1960 Mau Mau Uprising Kenya 61,185
June 1953 July 1953 Uprising of 1953 in East Germany East Germany 125
1 November 1954 19 March 1962 Algerian War of Independence Algeria ~169,000
1955 1972 First Sudanese Civil War Sudan ~500,000
28 June 1956 30 June 1956 Poznań 1956 protests Poznań, Poland 61-83
23 October 1956 10 November 1956 Hungarian Uprising Hungary 3,222
29 October 1956 March 1957 Sinai Campaign Sinai Peninsula, Egypt 913
1956 1 January 1959 Cuban Revolution Cuba unknown
23 October 1957 30 June 1958 Ifni War Western Sahara & Ifni, Morocco unknown
15 July 1958 25 October 1958 Lebanon Crisis of 1958 Lebanon 4
1958 1987 Colombian Civil War Colombia unknown
1959 1959 1959 Tibetan Rebellion Tibet, China unknown
1959 30 April 1975 Vietnam War Vietnam 5,100,000
1962 1975 Laotian Civil War Laos unknown
1967 1975 Cambodian Civil War Cambodia/Khmer Republic ~600,000

1960 - 1969

Start Finish War Location Death toll
June 1960 November 1965 Congo Crisis Democratic Republic of the Congo unknown
1960 1996 Guatemalan Civil War Guatemala unknown
15 April 1961 19 April 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion Bay of Pigs, Cuba ~291-1,480
1 September 1961 29 May 1991 Eritrean War of Independence Eritrea ~230,000-655,000
1961 1974 Portuguese Colonial War Angola/Guinea-Bissau/Mozambique ~140,790
1961 1974 Angolan War of Independence Angola 52,000
1963 1974 Guinea-Bissau War of Independence Guinea-Bissau 15,000
25 September 1964 8 September 1974 Mozambican War of Independence Mozambique ~63,500
18 December 1961 19 December 1961 Invasion of Goa Goa, Daman and Diu, India ~37-52
10 October 1962 21 November 1962 Sino-Indian War India/China ~4,588
1962 1966 Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation Indonesia/Malaysia unknown
1962 1970 Yemen Civil War Yemen 100,000
1962 1975 Dhofar Rebellion Oman unknown, at least 500
October 1963 October 1963 Sand War Algeria/Morocco unknown
1963 1967 Shifta War Kenya unknown
July 1964 1979 Rhodesian Bush War Rhodesia ~30,000+
1964 present Colombian Armed Conflict Colombia unknown
28 April 1965 September 1966 Operation Power Pack Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic ~3,533
15 August 1965 21 September 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 India/Pakistan ~11,064-15,064
1965 1989 South African Border War Namibia/Angola unknown
1966 1988 Namibian War of Independence Namibia unknown
1 October 1967 2 October 1967 Chola incident India unknown
5 June 1967 10 June 1967 Six-Day War Middle East ~21,779
1967 1970 Nigerian Civil War Nigeria ~1,200,000
February 1967 2 December 1989 Communist Insurgency War Malaysia unknown
1967 present Communist Insurgency in the Philippines Philippines unknown
1968 1998 The Troubles Ireland/UK ~4,050
5 January 1968 21 August 1968 Prague Spring Czechoslovakia unknown
June 1968 7 August 1970 War of Attrition Sinai Peninsula (Israeli control) ~6,554
1969 Ongoing Islamic insurgency in the Philippines Mindanao, Philippines ~160,000+
14 July 1969 18 July 1969 Football War El Salvador/Honduras 1,900
1969 1969 Sino-Soviet border conflict China/Soviet Union ~858

1970 - 1979

Start Finish War Location Death toll
26 March 1971 16 December 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War Bangladesh ~74000
December 3 1971 December 16 1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Kashmir ~100,000
1972 unknown Libya-Sudan conflict unknown unknown
October 6 1971 October 26 1973 Yom Kippur War Middle East ~11,184-17,656

1980 - 1989

  • 1980-1992 Salvadoran Civil War
  • 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War
  • 1980-present (ongoing) Internal Conflict in Peru
  • 1981 Paquisha War
  • 1981-1986 Ugandan Bush War
  • 1982 Falklands War
  • 1982 Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
  • 1982 1982 Ethiopian-Somali Border War
  • 1983 U.S. Invasion of Grenada
  • 1983-present (ongoing) Sri Lankan Civil War
  • 1983-2005 Second Sudanese Civil War
  • 1984-present (ongoing) Kurdish insurgency in Turkey
  • 1984 Siachin War
  • 1985 Agacher Strip War
  • 1987-1993 First Intifada
  • 1987-present (ongoing) Second Ugandan Civil War
  • 1988-present (ongoing) Casamance Conflict
  • 1988-present (ongoing) Somali Civil War
  • 1988-1994 Nagorno-Karabakh war
  • 1989-1991 Mauritania-Senegal Border War
  • 1989-1990 U.S. Invasion of Panama
  • 1989-1992 Afghan Civil War(First Phase)
  • 1989-1996 First Liberian Civil War
  • 1989 Romanian Revolution
  • 1989-present Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir

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