YEAR // Cold War
1973
17 wars active · 5 battles
Wars active
17 catalogued
1945-1991 · Year 29 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 28 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 20 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…
1955–1975 broad period; major U.S. combat 1965–1973 · Year 19 of 21
Vietnam War
A protracted conflict where military operations, political legitimacy, public opinion, and regional revolution intertwined.
1959-1975 · Year 15 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 13 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 13 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,…
1961-1974 · Year 13 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…
1963-1974 · Year 11 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…
1964-1974 · Year 10 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 10 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 9 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 9 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 8 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 · Year 7 of 9
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,…
1969-1982 · Year 5 of 14
Years of Lead
The Years of Lead were a period of social and political turmoil in Italy that lasted from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, marked by a wave of both far-left and far-right…
1973 · Sole year
Yom Kippur War
The Yom Kippur War, also known as the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, the fourth Arab–Israeli War, the October War, or the Ramadan War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab…
Battles
5 recorded