War
|
Dates
|
Combatant 1
|
Combatant 2
|
Result
|
Chinese Civil War
|
1944–1949
[26]
|
CPC
PLA
[15]
[16]
Supported by:
Soviet Union
|
KMT
NRA
Supported by:
United States
|
Communist victory on the mainland and then diplomatic field in 1971, Taiwan Strait stalemate
|
Iran crisis of 1946
|
1945–1946
|
Azerbaijan People's Republic
Republic of Mahabad
Supported by:
Soviet Union
|
Imperial State of Iran
Supported by:
United States
|
Iranian victory
|
Greek Civil War
|
1946–1949
[27]
[28]
|
Greek communists (
Democratic Army of Greece,
National Liberation Front,
Greek People's Liberation Army,
Communist Party of Greece)
[27]
[28]
Supported by:
Albania
[27]
Bulgaria
[27]
Yugoslavia
[27]
|
Greece
[27]
[28]
Supported by:
United Kingdom
[27]
[28]
United States
|
Kingdom of Greece victory
|
First Indochina War
|
1946–1954
[29]
[30]
|
Khmer Issarak
[31]
Pathet Lao
[32]
Viet Minh
[29]
[30]
Supported by:
China
[29]
Soviet Union
[29]
Polish People's Republic
[33]
East Germany
[34][
page needed]
[35]
|
France
[29]
[30]
State of Vietnam (1949–1954)
[29]
[30]
Cambodia (1953–1954)
Laos (1953–1954)
Supported by:
United States
[29]
|
DR Vietnam-allied victory
[29]
[30]
|
Paraguayan Civil War
|
1947
|
Liberal Party
Febrerista Revolutionary Concentration
Paraguayan Communist Party
Supported by:
Soviet Union
|
Paraguayan Government
Military of Paraguay
Colorado Party
Supported by:
United States
Argentina
|
Government/Military and
Colorado Party victory
|
Malayan Emergency
|
1948–1960
|
Communist forces:
Malayan Communist Party
Supported by:
Soviet Union
[36]
People's Republic of China
[37]
[38]
[39]
Indonesia
[38]
[39]
North Vietnam
[40]
[41]
[42]
|
Anti-communist forces:
Commonwealth of Nations
Supported by:
United States
Thailand (Thai–Malay border)
|
Commonwealth military victory
|
Korean War
|
1950–1953
[43]
[44]
[45]
[46]
[47]
[48]
|
North Korea
[43]
[44]
[45]
[46]
[47]
[48]
China
[43]
[44]
[45]
[47]
[48]
Supported by:
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
[49]
Hungary
Poland
Romania
[47]
Soviet Union
[43]
[47]
Mongolia
|
South Korea
[43]
[44]
[45]
[48]
United Nations
[44]
[45]
[48]
United States
[43]
[44]
[45]
[46]
[48]
Supported by:
Australia
[44]
[45]
[46]
Belgium
[44]
[45]
Bolivia
[45]
Canada
[44]
[45]
[46]
Colombia
[44]
Commonwealth of Nations
[50]
Cuba
[45]
Denmark
[51]
Ethiopia
[44]
[45]
France
[44]
[45]
[46]
Greece
[44]
India (Medical support)
[46]
Israel
[52]
Italy
[53]
Luxembourg
[44]
Netherlands
[44]
Taiwan
[44]
New Zealand
[44]
[46]
Norway
[54]
Philippines
[44]
South Africa
[44]
[45]
Spain
[55]
Sweden
[56]
Switzerland
[57]
Thailand
[44]
[45]
Turkey
[44]
[45]
[46]
United Kingdom
[44]
[46]
|
Stalemate
[43]
[44]
[48]
|
Mau Mau Uprising
|
1952–1960
|
Kenya Land and Freedom Army
[note 1]
Supported by:
Soviet Union
|
United Kingdom
Supported by:
US
|
British victory
|
Second Indochina War (
Vietnam War)
|
1953–1975
[59]
[60]
[61]
[62]
[63]
|
North Vietnam
[59]
[60]
[61]
[62]
[63]
[64]
Viet Cong and
PRG
[59]
[60]
[61]
[62]
[63]
[64]
Pathet Lao
GRUNK (1970–1975)
Khmer Rouge
China
[59]
[62]
[63]
[64]
Soviet Union
[59]
[62]
[63]
[64]
North Korea
[65]
Supported by:
Bulgaria
[64]
[66]
Cuba
[64]
[66]
[67]
[68]
Czechoslovakia
[64]
[66]
East Germany
[64]
[66]
Hungary
[64]
[66]
Poland
[64]
[66]
Romania
[64]
[66]
Sweden
[69]
[70]
|
South Vietnam
[59]
[60]
[61]
[62]
[63]
[64]
United States
[59]
[60]
[61]
[62]
[63]
[64]
South Korea
[59]
[62]
[64]
Australia
[59]
[62]
[64]
New Zealand
[59]
[62]
Laos
[64]
Kingdom of Cambodia (1967–1970)
Khmer Republic (1970–1975)
Thailand
[59]
[62]
[64]
Philippines
[62]
[64]
Supported by:
Brazil
[64]
Malaysia
[64]
Taiwan
[64]
|
North Vietnamese and
Viet Cong/
PRG victory
[59]
|
First Taiwan Strait Crisis
|
1954–1955
|
People's Republic of China
Supported by:
Soviet Union
|
Republic of China
United States
|
Stalemate
|
First Sudanese Civil War
|
1955–1972
|
United Kingdom (1955–1956)
Egypt (1955–1956)
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1955–1956)
Republic of the Sudan (1956–1969)
Democratic Republic of the Sudan (1969–1972)
Supported by:
Soviet Union
[71]
|
Southern Sudan Liberation Movement
Equatorial Corps (1955–1963)
Supported by:
Ethiopia
[72]
Uganda
[73]
Israel
[72]
[73]
[74]
|
Stalemate
|
Suez Crisis
|
1956–1957
[75]
|
Egypt
[75]
Supported by:
Soviet Union
[75]
United States
West Germany
Italy
China
|
France
[75]
Israel
[75]
United Kingdom
[75]
|
Territory unchanged. French and UK power in area weakened
[75]
|
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
|
1958
|
People's Republic of China
Supported by:
Soviet Union
|
Republic of China
United States
|
Stalemate
|
1958 Lebanon crisis
|
1958
|
Lebanese Opposition:
Supported by:
Soviet Union
Egypt
|
Lebanese Government
United States
|
President
Camille Chamoun steps down and Major General
Fouad Chehab is elected to succeed him
|
1959 Tibetan uprising
|
1959–1962
[76]
|
People's Republic of China
|
Tibet
Supported by:
Soviet Union
[77]
United States
[78]
Republic of India
Kingdom of Nepal
[79]
United Nations
[80]
Taiwan
|
Uprising suppressed
|
Central American crisis
|
1960–1996
[81]
|
EGP
[81]
FAR
[81]
ORPA
PGT
[81]
URNG
[81]
FSLN
FMLN (
CRM)
Nicaragua
[82] (1979–90)
Supported by
Soviet Union
[83]
Cuba
[84]
Mexico
[85]
Libya
[86]
[87]
Romania (before 1989)
Zapatista Army of National Liberation
Sweden
[88]
[89]
Costa Rica
Bulgaria
[90]
China
[91]
|
Guatemala
[81]
ESA
[81]
White Hand
[81] and other paramilitary groups
[81]
Somoza government
Contras (1981–90)
Salvadoran military government
Supported by
United States
[81]
[92]
Saudi Arabia
Honduras
Chile
Argentina
Panama
Israel
[93]
Taiwan
[94]
|
|
Congo Crisis
|
1960–1965
|
1960–62:
Stanleyville government
1964–65:
Simba and Kwilu rebels
Supported by:
Soviet Union
China
Cuba
Egypt
FLN
Algeria
Republic of the Congo
Tanzania
Burundi
|
1960–63:
Katanga
South Kasai
1964–65:
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Supported by:
United States
Belgium
[97]
France
Rhodesia and Nyasaland
South Africa
|
The Congo established as an independent unitary state under the authoritarian presidency of
Mobutu Sese Seko
|
Portuguese Colonial War
|
1960–1974
[98]
|
Portugal
[98]
Supported by:
South Africa
Rhodesia
Malawi
[99]
Spain
|
FLEC
[98]
FNLA
[98]
FRELIMO
[98]
MPLA
[98]
PAIGC
[98]
UNITA
[98]
Supported by:
China
[98]
Cuba
[98]
France
[98]
Soviet Union
[98]
United States
[98]
Zaire
Algeria
Tanzania
Zambia
Tunisia
Senegal
Guinea
Congo-Brazzaville
Libya
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Liberia
Egypt
India
Brazil
|
End of the Portuguese Empire
[66]
|
First Iraqi–Kurdish War
|
1961–1970
|
Republic of Iraq
Ba'athist Iraq
Supported by:
Syria
[100]
|
KDP
Supported by:
Iran
Israel
[101]
|
Stalemate
|
Eritrean War of Independence
|
1961–1974
|
ELF Supported by:
Libya
[102]
[103]
[104] (until 1977)
Cuba
[102]
[105] (until 1974)
Syria
[106]
[107]
Iraq
[108]
[109]
Tunisia
[110]
[111]
[112]
Saudi Arabia
[113]
[114]
Somalia
[115]
Sudan
[116]
|
Ethiopian Empire (until 1974) Supported by:
United States (until 1974)
|
Stalemate
|
1974–1991
|
Derg (1974–1987)
PDRE (1987–1991) Supported by:
Cuba
[117]
[118]
[119]
[120] (1974–1989)[
dubious –
discuss]
Soviet Union
[117]
[121]
[122]
[123] (1974–1990)
South Yemen
[124]
|
EPLF
TPLF
Supported by:
China
[125]
[126]
Sudan
[116]
Libya
[102]
[103]
[104] (1977–1991)
United States (May 1991)
[127]
Somalia
[115]
Syria
[106]
[107]
|
EPLF victory
|
North Yemen Civil War
|
1962–1970
|
Yemen Arab Republic
Egypt
[128]
Supported by:
Soviet Union
|
Kingdom of Yemen
Saudi Arabia
[128]
Supported by:
Jordan
[129]
United Kingdom
[129]
United States
|
Republican victory
|
Dhofar Rebellion
|
1962–1976
|
DLF (1962–1968)
PFLOAG (1968–1974)
NDFLOAG (1969–1971)
PFLO (1974–1976)
Supported by:
China
[130]
Soviet Union
[130]
South Yemen
[130]
East Germany
|
Oman
[130]
Supported by:
Iran
[130]
Abu Dhabi
[130]
Saudi Arabia
[130]
United Kingdom
[130]
Jordan
[130]
Egypt
[130]
Pakistan
[130]
UAE
[130]
United States
|
Omani government victory
|
Sarawak Communist Insurgency
|
1962–1990
|
Communist forces:
North Kalimantan Communist Party
[131]
- Sarawak People's Guerilla Force (SPGF)
[132]
- North Kalimantan People's Army (NKPA)
[132]
Indonesia (1962–65) (troops aid)
Other support:
Brunei People's Party
- North Kalimantan National Army (NKNA)
Supported by:
China
[132]
Soviet Union
|
Anti-communist forces:
United Kingdom
[133]
Malaysia
Supported by:
Australia
Brunei
New Zealand
United States
Indonesia (after 1965) (Indo-Malay border)
|
Stalemate
|
Aden Emergency
|
1963–1967
|
NLF
FLOSY
Supported by
Egypt
Yemen Arab Republic
Soviet Union
|
United Kingdom
Supported by
United States
|
NLF victory
|
Rhodesian Bush War
|
1964–1979
|
ZANLA (
ZANU)
FRELIMO
[134] (until 25 June 1975)
Mozambique (from 25 June 1975)
Supported by:
China
[135]
Libya
Tanzania
[136]
ZIPRA (
ZAPU)
[137]
MK (
ANC)
[137]
Supported by:
Soviet Union
[135]
Zambia
Cuba
[135]
East Germany
[135]
FROLIZI
|
Rhodesia (until 1 June 1979)
Zimbabwe Rhodesia (from 1 June 1979)
Supported by:
South Africa
Portugal (until 1974)
|
Stalemate
|
Dominican Civil War
|
1965
|
Constitutionalists
Dominican Revolutionary Party
[138]
Supported by:
Soviet Union
Cuba
|
Dominican Republic
United States
Inter-American Peace Force
|
Loyalist victory
|
Chadian Civil War
|
1965–1979
|
FROLINAT
GUNT
Libya
Supported by:
Soviet Union
|
Chad
France
Supported by:
United States
|
|
Communist insurgency in Thailand
|
1965–1983
|
Communist Party of Thailand Thai United Patriotic Front
Pathet Lao
[140]
[141]
Khmer Rouge (until 1978)
[140]
Malayan Communist Party
[142]
Supported by:
North Vietnam (until 1976)
Vietnam (from 1976)
China (from 1971)
North Korea
[141]
Soviet Union
|
Thailand
Taiwan (until July 1967)
United States
[140]
Supported by:
South Korea
[140]
|
Thai government victory
|
Bolivian Campaign
|
1966–1967
|
Ejército de Liberación Nacional
Cuba
Supported by:
Soviet Union
|
Bolivia
United States
|
Bolivian government victory
|
Korean DMZ Conflict (1966–1969)
|
1966–1969
|
North Korea
Supported by:
Soviet Union
China
|
South Korea
United States
|
South Korean–American victory
|
South African Border War
|
1966–1990
|
African nationalist forces:
PLAN (
SWAPO)
SWANU
Supported by:
Cuba
[144]
MPLA
[145]
Soviet Union
[146]
China
[147]
Yugoslavia
[148]
[149]
Bulgaria
[150]
[151]
Tanzania
[152]
[153]
Zambia
[154]
Libya
[155]
Kenya
[156]
Algeria
[157]
Guyana
[158]
Brazil
Mexico
|
Anti-communist forces:
South Africa
Supported by:
UNITA
[159]
United States
United Kingdom
Portugal (until 1975)
|
Stalemate
|
Nigerian Civil War
|
1967–1970
|
Nigeria
Supported by:
United Kingdom
Soviet Union
United States
Canada
Sudan
Chad
Niger
Syria
Saudi Arabia
Algeria
[160]
Bulgaria
[161]
|
Biafra
Supported by:
South Africa
Portugal
[162]
France
Spain
[163]
[164]
Tanzania
[165]
[166]
[167]
Gabon
Ivory Coast
Zambia
Rhodesia
Haiti
Israel
|
Nigerian victory
|
Years of Lead
|
1968–1982
|
Far-left terrorist groups:
Red Brigades
Front Line
October 22 Group
PAC
Continuous Struggle
PO-
AO
Supported by:
Soviet Union (alleged)
|
Italian Government
Supported by:
United States
Far-right terrorist groups:
National Vanguard
Black Order
NAR
Third Position
Supported by:
United States (alleged)
|
Far-left and far-right terrorist groups dismantled
|
Communist insurgency in Malaysia
|
1968–1989
|
Communist forces:
Malayan Communist Party
[142]
Supported by:
China
[37]
[168]
Soviet Union
[168]
|
Anti-communist forces:
Malaysia
[169]
Thailand
[170]
[171]
Supported by:
United Kingdom
[172]
Australia
New Zealand
[172]
United States
|
Peace agreement reached
|
Operation Condor
|
1968–1989
|
Left-wing governments and opponents to the
military juntas in South America.
Supported by:
Poland
Spain
|
Chile
Argentina
Brazil
Bolivia
Paraguay
Uruguay
Supported by:
United States
Peru
Ecuador
Colombia
Venezuela
|
|
Al-Wadiah War
|
1969
|
South Yemen
Supported by:
Soviet Union
|
Saudi Arabia
Supported by:
United States
|
Saudi victory
|
Bangladesh Liberation War
|
1971
|
Pakistan
Supported by:
United States
China
France
United Kingdom
Turkey
Iran
Jordan
|
Bangladesh
India
Supported by:
Soviet Union
Israel
|
Indian–Bangladeshi victory
|
Yemenite War of 1972
|
1972
|
South Yemen
National Democratic Front
Supported by:
Soviet Union
Cuba
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Libya
|
North Yemen
Supported by:
Saudi Arabia
Jordan
United States
Republic of China
United Kingdom
West Germany
|
Cairo Agreement
|
Angolan Civil War
|
1974–2002
|
MPLA
SWAPO
MK
Front for the National Liberation of the Congo (FNLC)
Supported by:
Soviet Union
[173] (until 1991)
Cuba
Tanzania
[174]
Mozambique
[175]
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
[176]
Polish People's Republic (until 1989)
Yugoslavia
People's Republic of Bulgaria
[177] (until 1989)
Guyana
[158]
Portugal
[178]
Romania (until 1989)
India
[176]
North Korea
Brazil
Mexico
|
UNITA
FNLA
FLEC
Supported by:
United States
[179]
People's Republic of China
[179]
South Africa
Zambia
[180]
Morocco
[181]
Zaire
Egypt
France
Belgium
Burkina Faso (from 1987)
Israel
United Kingdom
Rhodesia (until 1979)
South Korea
|
MPLA victory
|
Ethiopian Civil War
|
1974–1991
|
People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Supported by:
Soviet Union
[124]
[117]
[121]
[122]
[123]
[182]
[183]
North Korea
Libya
South Yemen
[124]
Tanzania
East Germany (until 1990)
[124]
[182]
[183]
Bulgaria
Cuba (1987–1991)
[184]
|
Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front
Supported by:
United States
United Kingdom
China
West Germany (until 1990)
Germany (from 1990)
Saudi Arabia
Israel
North Yemen
|
EPLF/
TPLF rebel victory
|
Lebanese Civil War
|
1975–1990
|
LNM (until 1982)
Jammoul (from 1982)
PLO
Supported by:
Iraq
Libya
Algeria
Amal Movement
Hezbollah (from 1985)
Iran
(From 1980, mainly
IRGC and
Artesh paramilitary units)
Supported by:
North Korea
Islamic Unification Movement (from 1982)
Syria
|
LF
AFL (until 1977)
SLA (from 1976)
Israel (from 1978)
Tigers Militia (until 1980)
Marada Brigades (left LF in 1978; aligned with Syria)
Lebanon
United Nations
UNIFIL (from 1978)
Multinational Force in Lebanon (1982–1984)
United States
France
Arab Deterrent Force (1976–1987)
Syria (1976, and from 1983)
Neutral Parties:
Armenian Revolutionary Federation
Kurds
|
Stalemate
|
Indonesian occupation of East Timor
|
1975–1999
|
East Timor (
CNRM, later CNRT)
Supported by:
Portugal
Soviet Union (until 1991)
Libya
Free Aceh Movement
China
|
Indonesia
Supported by:
United States
Australia
United Kingdom
Canada
Israel
[185]
|
|
Shaba I
|
1977
|
Front for the National Liberation of the Congo (FNLC)
Supported by:
Angola
Cuba
Soviet Union
|
Zaire Supported by:
United States
[186]
China
[187]
Sudan
[187]
Morocco
Egypt
France
Belgium
|
Zairian victory
|
Ogaden War
|
1977–1978
|
Ethiopia
Supported by:
Cuba
Soviet Union
South Yemen
North Korea
East Germany
|
Somalia
WSLF
Supported by:
China
Egypt
Socialist Republic of Romania
|
Ethiopian victory
|
Cambodian-Vietnamese War
|
1977–1991
|
Vietnam (
VPA)
KUFNS
People's Republic of Kampuchea (
KPRAF) (after 10 January 1979)
State of Cambodia (
CPAF) (1989)
Supported by:
Soviet Union
Laos
|
Democratic Kampuchea (
RAK)
Supported by:
China
Post invasion:
CGDK:
Supported by:
China
United States (non-combat support)
United Kingdom (non-combat support)
Spillover conflict:
Thailand (
border clashes)
|
Vietnamese/People's Republic of Kampuchea victory
|
Mozambican Civil War
|
1977–1992
|
FRELIMO
Supported by:
Malawi
[99]
Zimbabwe (from 1980)
Tanzania
Soviet Union (until 1991)
Bulgaria
Cuba
Brazil
|
RENAMO
Supported by:
Zimbabwe-Rhodesia
South Africa
[188]
Malawi
[99]
United States
Rhodesia
|
Stalemate
|
Chittagong Hill Tracts conflict
|
1977–1997
|
Bangladesh
|
Shanti Bahini
Supported by:
India
[189]
[190]
|
Stalemate
|
Shaba II
|
1978
|
Front for the National Liberation of the Congo (FNLC)
Supported by
Angola
Cuba (alleged)
Soviet Union (alleged)
|
Zaire
Supported by:
France
Belgium
United States
|
Zairian victory; mutual end of support for other nations' rebel groups
|
Uganda–Tanzania War
|
1978–1979
|
Tanzania
UNLA
Mozambique
[191]
|
Uganda
Libya
PLO
[191]
[192]
|
Tanzanian victory
|
NDF Rebellion
|
1978–1982
|
NDF
Supported by:
South Yemen
Libya
Soviet Union
|
North Yemen
Islamic Front
Supported by:
United States
Saudi Arabia
Taiwan
|
Government victory
|
Chadian–Libyan War
|
1978–1987
|
Libya
Chadian rebels
Supported by:
Soviet Union
|
Chad
France
Zaire
[194]
Supported by:
United States
[195]
Egypt
[193]
Sudan
[193]
|
Ceasefire
- Libyan victory (first phase)
- Chadian-French victory (second phase)
|
Yemenite War of 1979
|
1979
|
South Yemen
National Democratic Front
Supported by:
Soviet Union
Cuba
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Libya
|
North Yemen
Supported by:
Saudi Arabia
Jordan
United States
Taiwan
Iraq
Egypt
|
Stalemate
|
Soviet–Afghan War
|
1979–1989
|
Soviet Union
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
Supported by:
India
[196]
[197]
East Germany
|
Sunni Mujahideen:
Supported by:
Pakistan
[198]
United States
[199]
[200]
[201]
[202]
United Kingdom
[201]
[203]
[204]
China
[205]
Saudi Arabia
[200]
[201]
[206]
[207]
West Germany
[208]
[209]
United Kingdom
[209]
Turkey
[210]
Egypt
[211]
France
[209]
Israel
[212]
Japan
[212]
Libya
Shia Mujahedeen:
Supported by:
Iran
[198]
Small Maoist groups:
Supported by:
Sri Lanka
United Arab Emirates
Jordan
Malaysia
|
Mujahideen victory
|
Sino-Vietnamese War
|
1979
|
Vietnam
Supported by:
Soviet Union
Laos
|
People's Republic of China
|
Stalemate
|
Ethiopian–Somali Border War
|
1982
|
Ethiopia
Somali rebels
Supported by:
Cuba
[213]
South Yemen
[213]
North Korea
[213]
|
Somalia
Supported by:
United States
[213]
[214]
|
Stalemate
|
Sri Lankan Civil War
|
1983–2009
|
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
Supported by:
Libya
India (until 1987)
[215]
[216]
[217]
[218]
|
Sri Lanka
Maldives
India
Supported by:
Pakistan
|
Sri Lankan Government victory
|
Thai–Laotian Border War
|
1987–1988
|
Laos
Vietnam
Supported by
Soviet Union
|
Thailand
Supported by
United States
|
Stalemate
|
Afghan Civil War
|
1989–1992
|
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
Supported by
Soviet Union (until 1991)
|
Mujahideen
Supported by
United States
Pakistan
China
[219]
Saudi Arabia
|
Afghan mujahideen victory
|