List of wars 1945–1989

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1 1945-1949
2 1950-1959
3 1960 - 1969
4 1970 - 1979
5 1980 - 1989

[edit] 1945-1949

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Location(s)	Fatalities
1945	1949	Indonesian National Revolution	Indonesia	74,057-204,057^{[citation needed]}
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

[edit] 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
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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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