YEAR // Cold War
1963
15 wars active · 2 battles
Wars active
15 catalogued
1945-1991 · Year 19 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 18 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…
1954-2000 · Year 10 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…
1955-1972 · Year 9 of 18
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 · Year 9 of 21
Vietnam War
A protracted conflict where military operations, political legitimacy, public opinion, and regional revolution intertwined.
1959-1975 · Year 5 of 17
Laotian Civil War
The Laotian Civil War was waged between the Communist Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao Government from 23 May 1959 to 2 December 1975. The Kingdom of Laos was a covert theater during…
1961-1974 · Year 3 of 14
Angolan War of Independence
The Angolan War of Independence, known as the Armed Struggle of National Liberation in Angola, was a war of independence fought by the Angolan nationalist forces of the MPLA,…
1961-1991 · Year 3 of 31
Eritrean War of Independence
The Eritrean War of Independence was an armed conflict and insurgency aimed at achieving self-determination and independence for Eritrea from Ethiopian rule. Starting in 1961,…
1961-1970 · Year 3 of 10
First Kurdish–Iraqi War
The First Iraqi–Kurdish War, also known as the September Revolution, was an armed conflict and major event of the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict, lasting from 1961 until 1970. The…
1961-1974 · Year 3 of 14
Portuguese Colonial War
The Portuguese Colonial War, also known in Portugal as the Overseas War or in the former colonies as the War of Liberation, and also known as the Angolan, Guinea-Bissau and…
1962-1970 · Year 2 of 9
North Yemen civil war
The North Yemen civil war, also known in Yemen as the 26 September Revolution, was a civil war fought in North Yemen from 1962 to 1970 between partisans of the Mutawakkilite…
1963-1974 · Opening year
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence
The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence, also known as the Bissau-Guinean War of Independence, was an armed independence conflict that took place in Portuguese Guinea from 1963 to…
1963-1966 · Opening year
Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation
The Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation or Borneo confrontation was an armed conflict from 1963 to 1966 that stemmed from Indonesia's opposition to the creation of the state of…
1963-1964 · Opening year
Sand War
The Sand War was a border conflict between Algeria and Morocco fought from September 25 to October 30, 1963, although a formal peace treaty was not signed until February 20,…
1963-1967 · Opening year
Shifta War
The Shifta War or Gaf Daba (1963–1967) was a secessionist conflict in which ethnic Somalis, Muslim Borana, Sakuye, Gabbra and Rendille in the then Northern Frontier District…
Battles
2 recorded