Major Wars Of 20th Century

1. Years 1899 1902 Battle deaths 30,800In 1896 Cecil Rhodes sponsored the ineffective coup detat of the Jameson Raid and the failure to gain improved rights for Britons was used as an excuse to justify a major military buildup in the Cape. There was another reason for the British intention to take control of the Boer Republics there was at the time an attempt made by the Transvaal Republic to link up with German South West Africa, a possibility whi .....

Philippine insurrection

2. Years 1899 1902 Battle deaths 20,500 The Philippine American War was a war between the armed forces of the United States and the Philippines from 1899 through 1913.This conflict is also known as the Philippine Insurrection. This name was historically the most commonly used in the U.S., but Filipinos and an increasing number of American historians refer to these hostilities as the Philippine American War, and in 1999 the U.S. Library of Congress .....

The War of a Thousand Days

3. Years 1899 1903 Battle deaths 100,000 The Thousand Days War (1899 1902) (Spanish Guerra de los Mil D .....

The Dervish State vs Ethiopia Britain and Italy

4. Years 1899 1920 Battle deaths 6,000 The Dervish state was an early 20th century Somali Sunni Islamic state that was established by Muhammad Abdullah Hassan, a religious leader who gathered Somali soldiers from across the Horn of Africa and united them into a loyal army known as the Dervishes.In 1900, an Ethiopian expedition which had been sent to arrest or kill Hassan looted a large number of camels. Hassan in return attacked the Ethiopian garr .....

The Boxer Rebellion

5. Years 1900 1900 Battle deaths 3,003 The Boxer Rebellion, Boxer Uprising or Yihetuan Movement was a violent anti foreign and anti Christian movement which took place in China towards the end of the Qing dynasty between 1898 and 1900. It was initiated by the Militia United in Righteousness (Yihetuan), known in English as the Boxers, and was motivated by proto nationalist sentiments and opposition to foreign imperialism and Christianity. The Great .....

Uprisings in Colonial Angola

6. Years 1902 1904 Battle deaths 2,000 The Bailundo Revolt of 1902 was the last attempt by the Ovimbundu peoples to resist Portuguese colonization. The revolt, prompted by the declining price of rubber, pitted rival traders against one another. However, while the Portuguese maintained ethnic and national solidarity, the Ovimbundu continued to engage in slave raids. The Portuguese suppressed the rebellion and annexed the Central Highlands.Degredado .....

Ilinden Uprising

7. Years 1903 1903 Battle deaths 6,330 The Ilinden Preobrazhenie Uprising or simply the Ilinden Uprising of August 1903 was an organized revolt against the Ottoman Empire, which was prepared and carried out by the Secret Macedonian Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. The British researcher of the Balkans H. N. Brailsford wrote in his book Macedonia Its Races and Their Future The moment for which the Bulgarian population had been preparing fo .....

Uruguay Civil War

8. Years 1904 1904 Battle deaths 1,000 The Battle of Masoller, which occurred on September 1, 1904, was the final battle of the intermittent Uruguayan Civil War which marked much of 19th century Uruguay, resulting in the victory of the Colorado forces. .....

Second Yemen Rebellion

9. Years 1904 1904 Battle deaths 30,000 Starting in 1872, after the Sanaa region was firmly under control, Ahmed Muhtar Pasha set about restructuring the administration of the Yemen vilayet, dividing it into four sanjaks, with Sanacity serving as capital of the vilayet. Asir became a sanjak of Yemen in 1872. In the late 19th century, the Zaidis rebelled against the Turks, and Imam Mohammed ibn Yahya laid the foundation of a hereditary dynasty. Whe .....

Southwest African Revolt

10. Years 1904 1905 Battle deaths 12,800 During the late 19th century, the first Europeans planning to permanently settle entered the land. Primarily in Damaraland, German settlers acquired land from the Herero in order to establish farms; in 1883, the merchant Franz Adolf Eduard L .....

Russo Japanese war

11. Years 1904 1905 Battle deaths 151,831 The Russo Japanese War (1904 1905) was a conflict that grew out of the rival imperialist ambitions of Imperial Russia and Japan in Manchuria and Korea. It resulted in a surprise victory for Japan, establishing Japan as a major world power.Popular discontent in Russia following the defeat led to the Russian Revolution of 1905. The war ended with mediation by the United States. There was discontent among Japa .....

Dutch Achinese War

12. Years 1904 1907 Battle deaths 24,200 The Aceh War, also known as the Dutch War or the Infidel War (1873 1914), was an armed military conflict between the Sultanate of Aceh and the Netherlands which was triggered by discussions between representatives of Aceh and the United States in Singapore during early 1873. The war was part of a series of conflicts in the late 19th century that consolidated Dutch rule over modern day Indonesia.In 1903, the .....

Maji Maji revolt

13. Years 1905 1906 Battle deaths 8,840 As a result of the so called Scramble for Africa among the major European powers in the 1880s, Germany had ended up with several colonies on the Dark Continent. These were German East Africa (currently Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and part of Mozambique), German Southwest Africa (present day Namibia), Cameroon, and Togoland (today split between Ghana and Togo).They had a relatively weak hold on German East Afri .....

Russian Revolution 1905

14. Years 1905 1906 Battle deaths 1,500 On January 22 (January 9), 1905, the day known as Bloody Sunday, there was a protest march in St. Petersburg that was put down by armed force with more than 1,000 killed or injured.This event was the needed spark for many groups in Russian society to move into active protest. Each group had its own aims and even within similar classes there was no overall direction. The main protestors were the peasants (econ .....

Sokoto and UK vs Mahdist Revolt

15. Years 1906 1906 Battle deaths 2,080 In 1906 a large Mahdist revolution began outside of the city of Sokoto in the village of Satiru, a combined force of the British and the British appointed Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Attahiru II, destroyed the town and killed most residents involved. After 1907 there were fewer revolts and use of military force by the British and the focus of the High Commissioner turned toward taxation and administration. .....

Third Central American war

16. Years 1906 1906 Battle deaths 1,000 After toppling Sierra, Bonilla, a conservative, imprisoned ex president Policarpo Bonilla, a liberal rival, for two years and made other attempts to suppress liberals throughout the country, as they were the only group in the country with an organized political party. The conservatives were divided into a host of personalist factions and lacked coherent leadership, but Bonilla made some efforts to reorganize .....

Zulu Rebellion

17. Years 1906 1906 Battle deaths 2,356 In the years following the Anglo Boer War white employers in Natal had difficulty recruiting black farm workers because of increased competition from the gold mines of the Witwatersrand. The colonial authorities introduced a ?1 poll tax in addition to the existing hut tax to encourage black men to enter the labour market. Bambatha, who ruled about 5,500 people living in about 1,100 households, was one of the .....

4th Central American war

18. Years 1907 1907 Battle deaths 1,000 After toppling Sierra, Bonilla, a conservative, imprisoned ex president Policarpo Bonilla, a liberal rival, for two years and made other attempts to suppress liberals throughout the country, as they were the only group in the country with an organized political party. The conservatives were divided into a host of personalist factions and lacked coherent leadership, but Bonilla made some efforts to reorganize .....

Romanian Peasant Revolt

19. Years 1907 1907 Battle deaths 2,000 The 1907 Romanian PeasantsRevolt took place in March 1907 in Moldavia and it quickly spread, reaching Wallachia. The main cause was the discontent of the peasants about the inequity of land ownership, which was in the hands of just a few large landowners. The revolt began on the lands administered by one lessor, Mochi Fischer, in the village of Fl?manzi (the name seems predestined, as it literally means hungr .....

Morocco unrest

20. Years 1907 1908 Battle deaths 1,400Quote from Balagan.org.uk An Arab ex court scribe, Jilali ben Dris, revolted against the Sultan (Fleming, 1991; Furneaux, 1967; Woolman, 1968). Jilali ben Dris was popularly known as El Rogui (the Pretender) or Bu Hamara (literally the man who rides on a female donkey but referring to a Djinn trickster in local myth). El Roguis movement lasted from late 1901 until Sep 1908. The rebellion started in the Taza r .....

Korean guerilla war against Japanese occupation

21. Years 1907 1910 Battle deaths 17,736 By 1905 Japan had thwarted Chinese and Russian bids for influence over the Korean Peninsula and felt comfortable in demanding of Korea a relationship to her benefit. The 1905 Taft Katsura agreement in effect gave tacit U.S. approval to the Japanese colonization of the peninsula in exchange for Japanese recognition of U.S. influence over the Philippines. Without opposition in Korea, in November 1905 Japan con .....

Portugese war against Dembos

22. Years 1907 1910 Battle deaths 5,100 One of the most difficult Portuguese military campaigns of the period was waged against the Dembos, a Kimbundu speaking people who lived less than 150 kilometers northeast of Luanda. The Portuguese attacked the Dembos repeatedly over a period of three years before the Dembos were finally subdued in 1910. Because of difficult conditions, including the tropical climate, the Portuguese did not complete their occ .....

Iranian Constitution War

23. Years 1908 1909 Battle deaths 1,100 The Persian Constitutional Revolution or Iranian Constitutional Revolution (also known as the Constitutional Revolution of Iran) took place between 1905 and 1907. The revolution led to the establishment of a parliament in Persia (Iran).The Revolution opened the way for cataclysmic change in Persia, heralding the modern era. It saw a period of unprecedented debate in a burgeoning press. The revolution created .....

French Conquest of Wadai Sultanate

24. Years 1909 1911 Battle deaths 12,000 The militaristic Ouaddai opposed French domination until being overcome on June 6, 1909 with the occupation of the capital Abeche by French troops where a puppet sultan was installed. Resistance continued until the last independent sultan was captured in 1912 bringing the sultanate to an end. It became part of the independent Republic of Chad on that countrys independence in 1960. The Ouadda .....

Mexican Revolution

25. Years 1910 1920 Battle deaths 125,000 In 1910 the 80 year old az decided to hold an election to serve another term as president. He thought he had long since eliminated any serious opposition in Mexico; however, Francisco I. Madero, an academic from a rich family, decided to run against him and quickly gathered popular support, despite azs putting Madero in jail.When the official election results were announced, it was declared that az had won .....

Chinese Revolution

26. Years 1911 1911 Battle deaths 1,000 The Xinhai Revolution or Hsinhai Revolution also known as the 1911 Revolution or the Chinese Revolution, began with the Wuchang Uprising on October 10, 1911 and ended with the abdication of Emperor Puyi on February 12, 1912. The primary parties to the conflict were the Imperial forces of the Qing Dynasty (1644 1911), and the revolutionary forces of the Chinese Revolutionary Alliance (Tongmenghui). The revolut .....

Cuba vs Partido Independiente de Color

27. Years 1911 1911 Battle deaths 1,050 The Negro Rebellion, also known as the Little Race War, the War of 1912, or The Twelve, was an armed conflict in Cuba, between Afro Cuban rebels on one side and the Cuban and US military on the other. It took place mainly in the eastern region of the island in 1912. The conflict involved the widespread massacre of Afro Cubans, by the Cuban Army, and an intervention by the United States military. Both the mass .....

First Sino Tibetan War

28. Years 1911 1912 Battle deaths 2,000 Xinhai Lhasa Turmoil refers to the racial clash in the Lhasa region of Tibet and various mutinies as a result of the Wuchang Uprising. The Wuchang Uprising unfolded on October 10, 1911, and marked the beginning of the Xinhai Revolution. Turmoils in the frontier regions of China began to spread.The revolutionaries led by Sun Yat sen insisted on getting rid of the Tartars and rejected the Manchus, creating a n .....

Italo Turkish War

29. Years 1911 1912 Battle deaths 20,000 The Italo Turkish or Turco Italian War was fought between the Ottoman Empire and Italy from September 28, 1911 to October 18, 1912.The war was started after Italian imperialist ambitions, notably for the Turkish provinces of Tripolitana and Cyrenaica, in Libya, as well as the Dodecanese archipelago, reached boiling point, causing the Italians to decide to take the provinces by force from the Ottoman Empire.T .....

Paraguay Coups

30. Years 1911 1912 Battle deaths 5,000 The revolution of August 1904 began as a popular movement, but Liberal rule quickly degenerated into factional feuding, military coups, and civil war. Political instability was extreme in the Liberal era, which saw twenty one governments in thirty six years. During the period 1904 to 1922, Paraguay had fifteen presidents. By 1908 the radicales had overthrown General Ferreira and the c .....

1st Balkan War

31. Years 1912 1913 Battle deaths 82,000 The Balkan Wars were two wars in South eastern Europe in 1912 1913 in the course of which the Balkan League (Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Bulgaria) first conquered Ottoman held Macedonia and most of Thrace and then fell out over the division of the spoils, Bulgaria suffering defeat at the hands of her former allies and losing much of what she had been promised in the initial partition scheme.The wars were .....

Kuomintang vs Chinese Army

32. Years 1913 1913 Battle deaths 5,000 Founded in Guangdong Province on August 25, 1912 by Sung Chiao jen and Dr. Sun Yat sen, the KMT was formed from a collection several revolutionary groups, including the Tongmenghui, as a moderate democratic socialist party.The party gained a majority in the first National Assembly, but in 1913 Yuan Shikai, who was President dissolved the body, had Sung assassinated, and ordered the Kuomintang suppressed.Sun r .....

2nd Balkan War

33. Years 1913 1913 Battle deaths 60,500 The Balkan Wars were two wars in South eastern Europe in 1912 1913 in the course of which the Balkan League (Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Bulgaria) first conquered Ottoman held Macedonia and most of Thrace and then fell out over the division of the spoils, Bulgaria suffering defeat at the hands of her former allies and losing much of what she had been promised in the initial partition scheme.The wars were .....

World War I

34. Years 1914 1918 Battle deaths 10,670,868 World War I (also known as the First World War and the Great War) was a conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918. Chemical weapons were used for the first time, the first mass bombardment of civilians from the sky was executed, and some of the centurys first genocides took place during the war. No previous conflict had mobilised so many soldiers, or involved so many in the field of battle. Never before had .....

Russian Revolution and Civil War

35. Years 1917 1922 Battle deaths 802,225 The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a political movement in Russia that climaxed in 1917 with the overthrow of the provisional government that had replaced the Russian Tsar system, and led to the establishment of the Soviet Union, which lasted until its collapse in 1991. The Revolution can be viewed in two distinct phases. The first one was that of the February Revolution of 1917, which displaced the autocra .....

Finnish Civil War

36. Years 1918 1918 Battle deaths 15,150 The Finnish Civil War was fought from January to May 1918, between the Reds (punaiset), Communists together with Social Democrats, and the Whites (valkoiset), forces of the Conservative Senate intending to maintain status quo (retained independence and constitutional monarchy without parliamentarism). Finns have many names for this conflict vapaussota (War of Liberty), kansalaissota or sis?llissota (Civil W .....

Estonian Liberation War

37. Years 1918 1920 Battle deaths 11,750 The Estonian War of Independence (Estonian Vabaduss .....

Caco Revolt

38. Years 1918 1920 Battle deaths 2,102 Between 1911 and 1915, a series of political assassinations and forced exiles saw the presidency of Haiti change six times. Various revolutionary armies carried out this series of coups. Each was formed by cacos, or peasant brigands from the mountains of the north, along the porous Dominican border, who were enlisted by rival political factions under the promises of money, which would be paid after a successf .....

Third Anglo Afghan War

39. Years 1919 1919 Battle deaths 2,136 Amanullahs ten years of reign initiated a period of dramatic change in Afghanistan in both foreign and domestic politics. Amanullah declared full independence and sparked the Third Anglo Afghan War. Amanullah altered foreign policy in his new relations with external powers and transformed domestic politics with his social, political, and economic reforms. Although his reign ended abruptly, he achieved some no .....

Hungarian Romanian War of 1919

40. Years 1919 1919 Battle deaths 11,000 The seeds of the Hungarian Romanian war of 1919 were planted when Transylvania proclaimed union with Romania on December 1, 1918. In April 1919, the Bolsheviks came to power in Hungary, at which point its army attempted to retake Transylvania, commencing the war. By its final stage, more than 120,000 troops on both sides were involved. The destruction of the Hungarian Soviet Republic and the Romanian occupat .....

Hungary Civil War

41. Years 1919 1920 Battle deaths 1,500 In 1918, as a result of defeat in World War I, the Austro Hungarian Monarchy collapsed. On October 31, 1918, the success of the Aster Revolution in Budapest brought the liberal count Mih .....

First British Waziristan War

42. Years 1919 1920 Battle deaths 2,000 The Waziristan campaign 1919 1920 was a military campaign conducted in Waziristan by British and Indian forces against the fiercely independent tribesmen that inhabited this region. These operations were conducted in 1919 1920, following the unrest that arose in the aftermath of the Third Anglo Afghan War.The prelude to the 1919 1920 campaign was an incursion by the Mahsud Tribe in the summer of 1917 while Br .....

Polish Soviet War

43. Years 1919 1920 Battle deaths 100,000 After the First World War, Poland regained independence lost with the Third Partiton of Poland in 1795. After 123 years of annexation Second Polish Republic was proclaimed in 1918.Polish leader JOzef Pisudski envisioned a new federation (sometimes called Federation of Miedzymorze) which would be composed of Poland, Lithuania and western Ukraine (centered at Kyiv), forming a Polish led East European confeder .....

Turkish War of Independence

44. Years 1919 1921 Battle deaths 40,000 The Turkish War of Independence is a part of the History of Turkey that spans from the defeat of the Ottoman Empire by the Allies in World War I to the declaration of the Republic of Turkey on October 29, 1923.1916 The Sykes Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France is signed, dividing the Ottoman Empire between several states, both independent (e.g. Armenia and Kurdistan) and subject to such Eu .....

Second Greco Turkish War

45. Years 1919 1922 Battle deaths 50,000 The Greco Turkish War of 1919 1922, also called the War in Asia Minor, and (in Turkey) a part of the Turkish War of Independence, was a war between Greece and Turkey fought in the wake of World War I. The war arose because the western Allies, particularly British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, had promised Greece territorial gains at the expense of the Ottoman Empire if Greece entered the war on the Alli .....

Nejd Hejaz Wars

46. Years 1919 1925 Battle deaths 4,000 The First Saudi Hashemite War, also known as the First Nejd Hejaz War or the al Khurma dispute took place in 1918 1919 between Abdulaziz Ibn Saud of the Emirate of Nejd and the Hashemites of the Kingdom of Hejaz.The war came within the scope of the historic conflict between the Hashemites of Hejaz and the Saudis of Ryadh (Nejd) over supremacy in Arabia. It resulted in the defeat of the Hashemite forces and ca .....

Franco Syrian war

47. Years 1920 1920 Battle deaths 3,500 The Battle of Maysalun, also called The Battle of Maysalun Pass, took place between Syrian and French forces some 12 miles west of Damascus on July 23, 1920. The battle occurred when the French moved to topple the newly proclaimed nationalist government of Hashim al Atassi under King Faisal. An independent Kingdom of Syria had recently been proclaimed after an Arab army led by British colonel T. E. Lawrence d .....

Iraq vs UK

48. Years 1920 1921 Battle deaths 9,540 During World War I, British forces invaded Mesopotamia in 1917 and occupied Baghdad. Before they succeeded, they suffered a major defeat at the hands of the Turkish army, the siege and surrender of Kut. At the end of the war, the Ottoman empire collapsed and an armistice was signed with Turkey in 1918.Iraq was carved out of the old Ottoman Empire by direction of the UK government on January 10, 1919, and on N .....

Conquest of Mongolia

49. Years 1920 1921 Battle deaths 4,000 Following the Russian Revolution of October 1917, China regained its claims to Outer Mongolia aiming at its conversion into a common Chinese province. In late 1919, the Chinese general Xu Shuzheng occupied Urga and forced the Bogd Khaan and the leading nobles to sign a document renouncing Mongolias independence. Leaders of Mongolias national independence movement, such as Magsarjav or Damdinsuren (died in the .....

Green Rebellion

50. Years 1920 1921 Battle deaths 6,700 The Green armies, Green Army were armed peasant groups which fought against all governments in the Russian Civil War. They fought to protect their communities from requisitions or reprisals by either side. At times associated with the Socialist Revolutionary Party, by far the largest grouping of the Russian Constituent Assembly, the Green Armies had at least tacit support throughout much of Russia. Howe .....

Blackshirts vs Leftists

51. Years 1920 1922 Battle deaths 3,300 In March 1919, Benito Mussolini founded the first Italian Combat League (Fasci Italiani di Combattimento) at the beginning of the two red years (biennio rosso). He suffered a defeat in the election of November 1919. But, by the election of 1921, Mussolini gained entrance to Parliament. Out of his Fascist party the Blackshirts (Squadristi) were formed. In August 1920, the Blackshirts were used to break the gen .....

Senussi Orden vs Italy

52. Years 1920 1932 Battle deaths 40,000 The attempted Italian colonization of the Ottoman provinces of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica was never wholly successful. Several reorganizations of the colonial authority were made necessary, in the face of an armed Libyan opposition. From 1919 (May 17) to 1929 (January 24) the Italian government maintained the two traditional provinces, with separate colonial administrations. A system of controlled local asse .....

Ireland freestaters vs Irregulars

53. Years 1921 1922 Battle deaths 4,000 The Irish Civil War (June, 1922 April, 1923) was a conflict between supporters and opponents of the Anglo Irish Treaty of 6 December 1921 which had established the Irish Free State, precursor of todays Republic of Ireland.Upon the Treatys ratification (January 1922) by a narrow majority in the D .....

Moplah Riots in Kerala

54. Years 1921 1922 Battle deaths 2,450 The Moplah Rebellion (also known as the Moplah Riots, Maappila Lahala in Malayalam) was a British Muslim and Hindu Muslim conflict in Kerala that occurred in 1921. During the early months of 1921, multiple events including the Khilafat movement and the Karachi resolution fueled the fires of rebellion amongst the Moplah Muslim community. A rumour spread amongst the Moplahs that the British rule had ended and .....

Soviet Turkestan War

55. Years 1921 1923 Battle deaths 3,500 The Basmachi movement (Russian ???????????, Basmachestvo) or Basmachi Revolt was an uprising against Russian Imperial and Soviet rule by the Muslim, largely Turkic peoples of Central Asia. The movements roots lay in the 1916 violence that erupted over conscription of Muslims by the Russian Empire for service in World War I. In the months following the October 1917 Revolution, renewed violence developed into .....

Druze revolt

56. Years 1925 1927 Battle deaths 6,000 The Syrian Revolution, Great Syrian Revolt or Great Druze Revolt (1925 1927) was the largest and longest lasting anti colonial insurgency in the inter war Arab East. Mobilizing peasants, workers, and army veterans, rather than urban elites and nationalist intellectuals, it was the first mass movement against colonial rule in the Middle East. The revolt failed to liberate Syria from French occupation, but it p .....

Northern Expedition

57. Years 1926 1928 Battle deaths 126,500 The Northern Expedition was a military campaign led by Chiang Kai Shek in 1927 intended to unify China under the rule of the Kuomintang and ending the rule of local warlords. It was largely successful at these objectives. During the Northern Expedition, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China were cooperating with each other.The Northern Expedition began from a base area in Guangdong province. Chia .....

The Cristero War

58. Years 1926 1929 Battle deaths 10,000 The Cristero War (also known as the Cristiada) of 1926 to 1929 was an uprising and counter revolution against the Mexican government of the time, set off by religious persecution of Catholics, specifially the strict enforcement of the anti clerical provisions of the Mexican Constitution of 1917 and the expansion of further anti clerical laws. Regarding this period, recent President Vicente Fox stated, After .....

Second Afghan Anti Reform War

59. Years 1928 1929 Battle deaths 15,000 The political and judicial reforms Amanuallah proposed were equally radical for the time and included the creation of Afghanistans first constitution (in 1923), the guarantee of civil rights (first by decree and later constitutionally), national registration and identity cards for the citizenry, the establishment of a legislative assembly, a court system to enforce new secular penal, civil, and commercial co .....

Kuomintang vs warlords

60. Years 1929 1930 Battle deaths 75,000 In early 1927 the KMT CPC rivalry led to a split in the revolutionary ranks. The CPC and the left wing of the KMT had decided to move the seat of the Nationalist government from Guangzhou to Wuhan. But Chiang, whose Northern Expedition was proving successful, set his forces out to destroy the Shanghai CPC apparatus. Chiang Kai shek, with the aid of the Shanghai underworld, arguing that communist activities w .....

Ikhwan Revolt

61. Years 1929 1930 Battle deaths 5,500 The Ikhwan Revolt had begun in 1927, when elements of the Ikhwan, the radical irregular tribesmen of Arabia, undermined the authority of Ibn Saud and begun raiding neighbouring Iraq and Kuwait. The relations between the House of Saud and the Ikhwans deteriorated into an open bloody feud in December 1928. The main perpetrators of the rebellion were crushed in the Battle of Sabilla, on 29 March 1929. Ikhwan tri .....

Communists vs Koumintang

62. Years 1930 1935 Battle deaths 500,000 During the Agrarian Revolution, Communist Party activists retreated underground or to the countryside where they fomented a military revolt (Nanchang Uprising on August 1, 1927), combined the force with remnants of peasant rebels, and established control over several areas in southern China. Attempts by the Nationalist armies to suppress the rebellion were unsuccessful but extremely damaging to the Communi .....

Brazilian Revolt

63. Years 1932 1932 Battle deaths 1,000 By 1934 Vargas would develop in response what Thomas E. Skidmore and Peter H. Smith called a legal hybrid between the regimes of Mussolinis Italy and Salazars Portuguese Estado Novo, copied repressive fascist tactics, and conveyed their same rejection of liberal capitalism, but attained power baring few indications of his future quasi fascist polices.Changing conditions forced Vargas to eventually abandon the .....

El Salvador La Matanza

64. Years 1932 1932 Battle deaths 2,600 The violence in El Salvador dates back to the 1930s and the coffee oligarchy (los catorce), which at that time was led by the countrys fourteen richest families, owning 90% of the land. Under the leadership of Agustin Farabundo Mart .....

Chaco War

65. Years 1932 1935 Battle deaths 92,661 The Chaco War (1932 1935) was fought between Bolivia and Paraguay over control of the arid Chaco Boreal region of South America. Though the region was sparsely populated, control of the Paraguay River running through it would have given one of the two landlocked countries access to the Atlantic Ocean. This was especially important to Bolivia, which had lost its Pacific Ocean coast to Chile in the War of the .....

World War II

66. Years 1939 1945 Battle deaths 50,000,000 World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theaters, and costing approximately 50 million lives. The war was fought mainly between an alliance of the British Commonwealth, France, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China collectively known as the Allies; a .....

Chinese Civil War

67. Years 1945 1950 Battle deaths 1,200,000 The Chinese Civil War was a conflict in China between the Kuomintang (the Nationalist Party; KMT) and the Communist Party of China (CPC). It began with the takeover of the KMT by the right wing General Chiang Kai shek and purges of leftist and Communist members in 1926 and ended in 1949 with an unofficial cessation of major hostilities, with the Communists controlling mainland China and the Nationalists c .....

Taiwanese revolt

68. Years 1947 1947 Battle deaths 1,250 The 228 Incident, also known as the 228 Massacre, was an anti government uprising in Taiwan that began on February 27, 1947 and was violently suppressed by the Kuomintang (KMT) government. Estimates of the number of deaths vary from ten thousand to thirty thousand or more. The Incident marked the beginning of the Kuomintangs White Terror period in Taiwan, in which thousands more Taiwanese vanished, were kille .....

Paraguayan Gvt vs Rebels

69. Years 1947 1947 Battle deaths 1,000 The Allied victory (in World War II) convinced Mor .....

Telangana Rebellion and Indo Hyderabad War

70. Years 1947 1948 Battle deaths 5,210 This article is about the events related to Hyderabad War Telenganans vs Razakars, 1947 48 and Indo Hyderabad War in 1948. Telangana Rebellion The Telangana Rebellion or Vetti Chakiri Movement also known as Telangana Raithanga Sayudha Poratam was a peasant rebellion against the feudal lords of the Telangana region and later against the princely state of Hyderabad between 1946 and 1951. Operation Polo Operati .....

Civil War in Mandatory Palestine

71. Years 1947 1948 Battle deaths 4,009 The 1947 48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine lasted from 30 November 1947, the date of the United Nations General Assembly vote for the Partition Plan for Palestine, to the termination of the British Mandate itself on 14 May 1948.This period constitutes the first phase of the 1948 Palestine war, during which the Jewish and Arab communities of Palestine clashed, while the British, who had the obligation to mai .....

Indian Partition Communal Violence

72. Years 1947 1948 Battle deaths 200,000 The partition of India was the partition of British India on the basis of religious demographics. This led to the creation of the sovereign states of the Dominion of Pakistan (that later split into the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Peoples Republic of Bangladesh) and the Union of India (later Republic of India). The Indian Independence Act 1947 had decided 15 August 1947 as the appointed date for the .....

First Kashmir War

73. Years 1947 1949 Battle deaths 3,200 The Indo Pakistani War of 1947 sometimes known as the First Kashmir War was a war fought between India and Pakistan over the region of Kashmir from 1947 to 1949.India and Pakistan achieved their long sought after independence from the United Kingdom on August 15, 1947. The subcontinent was split along religious lines with the Muslim northwest and north east going to Pakistan and the rest of the area going to .....

Vietnam Civil War

74. Years 1955 1964 Battle deaths 164,923 The 1959 to 1963 phase of the Vietnam War started after the North Vietnamese had made a firm decision to commit to a military intervention in the guerrilla war in the South, a buildup phase began, between the 1959 North Vietnamese decision and the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, which led to a major US escalation of its involvement. Vietnamese communists saw this as a second phase of their revolution, the US now s .....

Sinai War

75. Years 1956 1956 Battle deaths 2,142 On October 29, Israel invaded the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula and made rapid progress towards the Canal Zone. As per the agreement, Britain and France offered to reoccupy the area and separate the warring armies. Nasser (whose nationalisation of the company had been greeted with delirium by Egyptian crowds) refused the offer, which gave the European powers a pretext for a joint invasion to regain contr .....

Second Kashmir War

76. Years 1965 1965 Battle deaths 5,000 The 1965 war, also known as the Second Kashmir War, between India and Pakistan was the culmination of a series of skirmishes that occurred between April 1965 and September 1965. Details of this war, like those of most India Pakistan wars, are sketchy and riddled with media biases. .....

The Six Day War

77. Years 1967 1967 Battle deaths 10,047 The 1967 Arab Israeli War, also known as the Six Day War or June War was fought between Israel and its Arab neighbors Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. As a result, Israel gained control of the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights. The results of the war affect the geopolitics of the region to this day. .....

Indian Govt vs Punjab

78. Years 1985 2000 Battle deaths 7,247 The conflict taking place in the north western Indian state Punjab saw the Indian government fighting a number of Sikh insurgent outfits aiming for the establishment of a Sikh state, Khalistan (Land of the Pure). The conflict became active in 1983 and throughout its duration displayed much violence, generating high death tolls. Following large counterinsurgency operations, the government pronounced the insurg .....

Burundi Civil War

79. Years 1991 2005 Battle deaths 8,295 The Burundi Civil War (1993 2005) is driven by ethnic rivalries between Hutu and Tutsi tribal factions of Burundi. Rivalry escalated into a bloody power struggle following the presidential election of June 1993. The swearing in of Pierre Nkurunziza as president in August 2005 was seen as a formal endpoint to the conflict, but one major rebel group remained outside the peace process. Over 300,000 people perish .....

Tajikistan Govt vs Opposition

80. Years 1992 1998 Battle deaths 6,834 When Tajikistan became independent in 1991, communist leaders continued to control the country. Unified in their opposition, democratic and Islamist parties formed UTO (United Tajik Opposition). UTO fought against the government until 1998 in spite of the several peace agreements signed during the period. In 1998 another opposition group, the Movement for Peace in Tajikistan, attacked government forces as it .....

Russia vs Chechnyan Secessionists

81. Years 1994 2007 Battle deaths 17,601 Coinciding with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, part of Chechnya declared independence from the Russian Federation. Simmering debate over independence ultimately led to civil war in 1993. The First Chechen War began in 1994 when Russian forces entered Chechnya to restore civil order and central rule. Following a 1997 ceasefire agreement, Russian troops were withdrawn from Chechnya.The 1997 elect .....

Nepal Civil War

82. Years 1996 2006 Battle deaths 12,284 The Nepal Civil War was a conflict between monarchist government forces and Maoist rebels in Nepal which lasted from 1996 until 2006. The war was started by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) on February 13, 1996, with the aim of establishing the Peoples Republic of Nepal.More than 12,700 people were killed and an estimated 100,000 to 150,000 people were internally displaced as a result of the conflict. T .....

Guinea Bissau Coup

83. Years 1998 1999 Battle deaths 1,700 The conflict over government in Guinea Bissau was triggered by the dismissal by President Viera of General Ansumane Mane. The latter formed a military junta, Military Junta for the Consolidation of Democracy, Peace and Justice, and challenged the government, which could only avoid defeat by relying on foreign troops. Following negotiations and a peace agreement, the rebels made a final push and ousted Preside .....

Eritrea vs Ethiopia

84. Years 1998 2000 Battle deaths 98,192 The Eritrean Ethiopian War took place from May 1998 to June 2000 between Ethiopia and Eritrea, forming one of the conflicts in the Horn of Africa. Eritrea and Ethiopia two of the worlds poorest countries spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the war, and suffered tens of thousands of casualties as a direct consequence of the conflict, which resulted in minor border changes.According to a ruling by an inte .....

Afghanistan war

85. Years 2001 2012 Battle deaths 42,932 The War in Afghanistan, which began on October 7, 2001 as the U.S. military operation Operation Enduring Freedom, was launched by the United States with the United Kingdom in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks. The stated purpose of the invasion was to capture Osama bin Laden, destroy al Qaeda, and remove the Taliban regime which had provided support and safe harbor to al Qaeda. The United States Bus .....

Al Quaeda vs USA and allies

86. Years 2001 2012 Battle deaths 4,538 The War on terrorism or War on terror (abbreviated in policy circles as GWOT for global war on terror) is a global effort by the governments of several countries (primarily the United States and its principal allies) to destroy international groups it deems as terrorist (primarily radical Islamist terrorist groups, including al Qaeda) and ensure rogue nations no longer support terrorist activities. It has bee .....

Iraq vs US led coalition

87. Years 2003 2003 Battle deaths 8,202 The 2003 invasion of Iraq, also called simply the Iraq War or Operation Iraqi Freedom, was a war that began March 20, 2003, fought between a group of troops consisting primarily of American and British, but also Polish, Australian and several other nations forces, and Iraq.The invasion began without the explicit authorization of the United Nations Security Council, and most legal authorities take the view th .....

Iraqi Insurgency

88. Years 2003 2012 Battle deaths 17,304 In 2003, a multi national coalition comprising USA, UK and Australia ousted the Saddam Hussein regime and a new government was installed. Shortly after, violence and criticism of the government and its foreign support escalated into a renewed armed conflict, in which a number of opposition groups became involved. .....

Waziristan conflict

89. Years 2004 2012 Battle deaths 20,165 The War in North West Pakistan is an armed conflict between the Pakistani Army and Islamist militants made up by local tribesmen, the Taliban and foreign extremists. It began in 2004 when tensions rooted in the Pakistani Armys search for al Qaeda members in Pakistans mountainous Waziristan area (in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas) escalated into armed resistance by local tribesmen.Clashes erupted bet .....

Southern Lebanon War

90. Years 2006 2006 Battle deaths 821 The 2006 Lebanon War, known in Lebanon as the July War and in Israel as the Second Lebanon War, was a 34 day military conflict in Lebanon and northern Israel. The principal parties were Hezbollah paramilitary forces and the Israeli military. The conflict started on 12 July 2006, and continued until a United Nations brokered ceasefire went into effect on 14 August 2006, though it formally ended on 8 September 20 .....

Mexican Drug War

91. Years 2006 2012 Battle deaths 83,000 The Mexican Drug War is an ongoing armed conflict between rival drug cartels fighting each other for regional control and against the Mexican government forces. The governments principal goal has been to put down the drug related violence that was raging between different drug cartels before any military intervention was made. In addition, the Mexican government has claimed that their primary focus is on dis .....

Kivu Conflict

92. Years 2006 2012 Battle deaths 4,272 The Kivu conflict began as an armed conflict between the military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) and the Hutu Power group Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) in 2004. The United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo also became involved in the conflict. Until March 2009, the main combatant group against the FARDC was the rebel Tutsi forces formerly under the co .....

Yemen vs Al Quaeda

93. Years 2009 2012 Battle deaths 3,669 Since 2009, the government has been engaged in an armed conflict over government with the al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).In 2012, the armed conflict between the government of Yemen and AQAP escalated drastically. In May, the Yemeni military launched a large scale offensive in order to regain control of the areas captured by AQAP in 2011. The army, heavily supported by local tribes, pushed AQAP on th .....

Libyan Civil War

94. Years 2011 2012 Battle deaths 1,928 During 2011 Libya was engulfed in a conflict over governmental power; the incumbent leader col. Muammar Gaddafi was challenged as the wave of popular uprisings; the Arab Spring. The protests in Libya quickly evolved to an organized and armed opposition operating from the eastern city Benghazi. After a much debated resolution, resolution 1973, was passed by the Security Council of the UN a no fly zone was esta .....

Syrian civil war

95. Years 2011 2012 Battle deaths 15,897 The Syrian civil war, also referred to as the Syrian uprising, is an ongoing armed conflict in Syria between forces loyal to the Baath Party government and those seeking to oust it. The conflict began on 15 March 2011 with nationwide demonstrations as part of the wider protest movement known as the Arab Spring. Protesters demanded the resignation of President Bashar al Assad, as well as the end to nearly fiv .....

First and Second Congo Wars

96. Years 1996 2006 Battle deaths 151,377 The first and second Congo Wars took place in the territory of the Democratic Republic of Congo and was one of the deadliest wars in the world since World War II. This conflict is sometimes known as Africas First World War because it at times involved armed forces from more than seven nations as well as numerous rebel groups and militias. The war started in 1996 in the aftermath of the civil war in Rwanda a .....

South Yemen Coup

97. Years 1986 1986 Battle deaths 10,000 The earlier history of this region can be found at the entry for Hadhramaut. British influence increased among the traditional sultanates in the south and eastern portion of Yemen, historically known as the Hadhramaut after the British captured the port of Aden in 1839. It was ruled as part of British India until 1937, when Aden was made a crown colony with the remaining land designated as east Aden and west .....

Sudan Government vs Militias

98. Years 1983 2012 Battle deaths 68,769 The civil war in Sudan is a conflict between the Sudanese Government in Sudan and several militant groups of which some (for example SPLA) strive for an independent south and some (SLA, JEM) for an independent Darfur. The war has been ongoing since the 1980ies. The conflict in Darfur intensified in 2003. UCDP Prior to independence from Britain in 1956, there was a distinct division between southern and nort .....

Nicaragua Govt vs Contras

99. Years 1981 1990 Battle deaths 30,000 Upon assuming office in 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan condemned the FSLN for joining with Cuba in supporting Marxist revolutionary movements in other Latin American countries such as El Salvador. His administration authorised the CIA to begin financing, arming and training the remnants of Somozas National Guard as anti Sandinista guerrillas that were branded counter revolutionary by leftists. (contrarre .....

Uganda Civil War

100. Years 1980 2007 Battle deaths 116,044 In February 1981, shortly after the new Obote government took office, with Paulo Muwanga as vice president and minister of defense, a former Military Commission member, Yoweri Museveni, and his armed supporters declared themselves the National Resistance Army (NRA). Museveni vowed to overthrow Obote by means of a popular rebellion, and what became known as the war in the bush began. Several other undergroun .....

Uganda vs Tanzania

101. Years 1978 1979 Battle deaths 4,000 The Uganda Tanzania war (usually referred to in Uganda as the Liberation War) was fought between Uganda and Tanzania in 1978 1979, and led to the overthrow of Idi Amins regime. Idi Amins forces included thousands of troops sent by Muammar Gaddafi, and some Palestinian support.The armed conflict between Tanzania and Uganda concerned the so called Kagera Salient, an 1800 square km strip of Tanzanian territory i .....