List of wars 1945-1989

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• 1945-1949 Chinese Civil War
• 1946-1954 First Indochina War
• 1947-1949 Indo-Pakistani War of 1947
• 1948-1949 First Arab-Israeli War
• 1948-1960 Malayan Emergency
• 1950-1953 Korean War
• 1952-1960 Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya
• 1954-1975 Second Indochina War
  • 1954-1975 Vietnam War
  • 1959-1975 Laotian Civil War
  • 1962-1975 Secret War
  • 1967-1975 Cambodian Civil War
• 1954-1962 Algerian War of Independence
• 1955-1972 First Sudanese Civil War
• 1956 Suez Crisis (Second Arab-Israeli War)
• 1956-1959 Cuban Revolution
• 1957-1958 Ifni War
• 1960-1965 Congo Crisis
• 1960-1996 Guatemalan Civil War
• 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion (CIA-sponsored invasion attempt by Cuban Nationals)
• 1961-1975 Angolan War of Independence
• 1962-1963 Sino-Indian War
• 1962-1966 Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation
• 1962-1970 Yemen Civil War
• 1964-1975 Mozambique's War of Independence
• 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
• 1965-1996 Chad Civil War
• 1966-1988 Namibian War of Independence
• 1966-1979 Zimbabwean Second Chimurenga (Rhodesian Bush War)
• 1967 Six-Day War (Third Arab-Israeli War)
• 1967-1970 Nigerian Civil War
• 1968-1970 War of Attrition
• 1969 Football War
• 1969-1988 The Troubles in Northern Ireland
• 1971 The Bangladesh Liberation War that in turn initiated the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
• 1973 Yom Kippur War (Fourth Arab-Israeli War)
• 1974 Agacher Strip War
• 1974-1991 Ethiopian Civil War
• 1975-1989 Angolan Civil War
• 1975-1991 Lebanese Civil War
• 1975-1998 War of Indepence in East Timor
• 1977-1978 Ogaden War
• 1977-1991 Cambodian-Vietnamese War
• 1978-2005 The Aceh War
• 1978-1988 Ugandan Civil War
• 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War
• 1979-1992 El Salvador Civil War
• 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War
• 1981 Border war between Ecuador and Peru
• 1982 Falklands War
• 1982 Lebanon War
• 1982-1984 Mozambique's Civil War
• 1983-2000 Civil War in Sri Lanka
• 1983-2005 Second Sudanese Civil War
• 1985 Christmas War between Mali and Burkina Faso
• 1989-1991 Mauritania-Senegal Border War
• 1989-1990 Operation Just Cause, United States invades Panama
• 1989-1997 Liberian Civil War