YEAR // Cold War
1967
23 wars active · 5 battles
Wars active
23 catalogued
1945-1991 · Year 23 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 22 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 14 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 13 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 13 of 21
Vietnam War
A protracted conflict where military operations, political legitimacy, public opinion, and regional revolution intertwined.
1959-1975 · Year 9 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 6 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 · Year 5 of 12
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…
1963-1967 · Closing 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…
1964-1974 · Year 4 of 11
Mozambican War of Independence
The Mozambican War of Independence was an armed conflict between the guerrilla forces of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) and Portugal. The war officially started on 25…
1964-1979 · Year 4 of 16
Rhodesian Bush War
The Rhodesian Bush War, also known as the Rhodesian Civil War, Second Chimurenga and the Zimbabwe War of Independence, was a civil conflict from July 1964 to December 1979 in the…
1965-1979 · Year 3 of 15
Chadian Civil War of 1965–1979
The Chadian Civil War of 1965–1979 was waged by several rebel factions against two Chadian governments. The initial rebellion erupted in opposition to Chadian President François…
1965-1996 · Year 3 of 32
Guatemalan Civil War
The Guatemalan Civil War was fought from 1960 to 1996 between the government of Guatemala and various leftist rebel groups. The Guatemalan government forces committed genocide…
1966-1990 · Year 2 of 25
South African Border War
The South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric conflict…
1967-1975 · Opening year
Cambodian Civil War
The Cambodian Civil War was a civil war in Cambodia fought between the Khmer Rouge, supported by North Vietnam and China, against the government of the Kingdom of Cambodia and,…
1967 · Sole year
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
The Naxalite–Maoist insurgency is an ongoing conflict between the Indian government and left-wing extremist groups. The Naxalites are a group of communist groups following Maoist…
1967-1970 · Opening year
Nigerian Civil War
The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, Nigeria-Biafra War, or Biafra War, was an armed conflict fought between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra, a secessionist…
1967 · Sole year
Six-Day War (1967)
The Six-Day War, or the 1967 Arab–Israeli war, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states, primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, in the context of the Arab–Israeli…
1967-1970 · Opening year
War of Attrition
The War of Attrition involved fighting between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and their allies from 1967 to 1970.
Battles
5 recorded