YEAR // Cold War
1955
10 wars active · 4 battles
Wars active
10 catalogued
1945-1991 · Year 11 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…
1946-1989 · Year 10 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…
1948-1960 · Year 8 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 · Year 7 of 10
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.
1953-1962 · Year 3 of 10
Cold War (1953–1962)
The Cold War (1953–1962) refers to the period in the Cold War between the end of the Korean War in 1953 and the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. It was marked by tensions and…
1954-1962 · Year 2 of 9
Algerian War
The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian Revolution, the Franco-Algerian War, or the Algerian War of Independence, was an armed conflict between France and the Algerian…
1954-2000 · Year 2 of 47
Dirty War
The Mexican Dirty War was the Mexican theater of the Cold War, an internal conflict from the 1960s to the 1980s between the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)-ruled…
1954-1959 · Year 2 of 6
Jebel Akhdar War
The Jebel Akhdar War, also known as the Jebel Akhdar Rebellion or the Oman War, broke out in 1954 and again in 1957 in Oman, as an effort by the local Omanis in the interior of…
1955-1972 · Opening year
First Sudanese Civil War
The First Sudanese Civil War was fought from 1955 to 1972 between the northern part of Sudan and the southern Sudan region which demanded representation and more regional…
1955–1975 broad period; major U.S. combat 1965–1973 · Opening year
Vietnam War
A protracted conflict where military operations, political legitimacy, public opinion, and regional revolution intertwined.
Battles
4 recorded