YEAR // Cold War
1949
12 wars active · 8 battles
Wars active
12 catalogued
1927-1950 · Year 23 of 24
Chinese Civil War
The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and the forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Armed conflict continued…
1945-1991 · Year 5 of 47
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western…
1945-1949 · Closing year
Indonesian National Revolution
The Indonesian National Revolution, also known as the Indonesian War of Independence, was an armed conflict and diplomatic struggle between the Republic of Indonesia and the…
1946-1954 · Year 4 of 9
First Indochina War
The First Indochina War, known alternatively internationally as the French Indochina War, was fought in French Indochina between France and the Viet Minh and their respective…
1946-1949 · Closing year
Greek Civil War
The Greek Civil War took place from 1946 to 1949. The conflict, which erupted shortly after the end of World War II, consisted of a Communist-led uprising against the established…
1946-1989 · Year 4 of 44
Indochina Wars
During the aftermath of World War II and the Cold War, the Indochina wars were a series of wars which were waged in Indochina from 1945 to 1991, by communist forces against the…
1947-1949 · Closing year
1948 Palestine war
The 1948 Palestine war was fought in the territory of what had been, at the start of the war, British-ruled Mandatory Palestine. It began as a civil war between the Arab and…
1947-1953 · Year 3 of 7
Cold War (1947–1953)
The Cold War (1948–1953) is the period within the Cold War from the incapacitation of the Allied Control Council in 1948 to the conclusion of the Korean War in 1953.
1947-1949 · Closing year
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948
The India–Pakistan war of 1947–1948, also known as the first Kashmir war, was a war fought between India and Pakistan over the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir from 1947 to…
1948-1949 · Closing year
1948 Arab–Israeli War
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. The…
1948-1960 · Year 2 of 13
Malayan Emergency
The Malayan Emergency, also known as the Anti–British National Liberation War, (1948–1960) was a guerrilla war fought in Malaya between communist pro-independence fighters of the…
1949-1958 · Opening year
La Violencia
La Violencia was a ten-year civil war in Colombia from 1948 to 1958, between the Colombian Conservative Party and the Colombian Liberal Party, mainly fought in the countryside.
Battles
8 recorded
September 4, 1949
Battle of Cao Bang
First Indochina War
January 1, 1949
Battle of Dengbu Island
Chinese Civil War
February 12, 1949
Battle of Florina
Greek Civil War
January 1, 1949
Battle of Guningtou
Chinese Civil War
January 3, 1949
Battle of Rafah
1948 Arab–Israeli War
January 1, 1949
Operation Jungle
Cold War
March 5, 1949
Operation Uvda
1948 Arab–Israeli War
April 20, 1949
Yangtze River Crossing Campaign
Chinese Civil War