Home›The Contemporary World›Event Type›Military ConflictBrowse ByMilitary ConflictThis dimension sorts historical events by their basic type, a battle, a treaty or a natural disaster. Wikipedia notes that history includes thematic categorizations such as "political history, military history, social history, and economic history," each covering its own kind of event. Browsing by event type keeps events of the same kind grouped together.FactsMilitary ConflictSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonStart YearWell-attested1945 CE 1Military ConflictFilter Results28 entriesGroup TreeAllEvents of the Early Cold War and Decolonization, 1945 to 1969 (12)Events of the Late Cold War and After, 1970 to 1999 (11)Events of the Twenty-First Century, 2000 Onward (4)EraAllThe African Independence Era (3)The Cold War (9)The Contemporary Period (17)LocationAllAfrica (8)Asia (7)Bahrain (1)Cuba (2)Dagestan (1)Europe (3)Iran (1)Latin America (1)Lhasa (1)North America (2)South America (2)The Korean Peninsula (1)Yemen (1)Event Era (Year)All1947 (1)1950 (1)1952 (1)1953 (1)1954 (2)1956 (1)1959 (1)1960 (1)1962 (1)1967 (2)1973 (1)1975 (1)1976 (1)1979 (1)1980 (3)1982 (2)1989 (1)1994 (1)1999 (1)2001 (1)2008 (1)2011 (2)ParticipantsAllAugusto Pinochet (1)Charles de Gaulle (1)Chun Doo-hwan (1)Fidel Castro (2)Gamal Abdel Nasser (2)Hector Pieterson (1)Ho Chi Minh (1)Jose Lopez Portillo (1)Kim Dae-jung (1)Mao Zedong (1)Mikhail Gorbachev (1)Patrice Lumumba (1)Paul Kagame (1)Ruhollah Khomeini (1)Salvador Allende (1)Participating StatesAllEgypt (2)France (1)Israel (2)Jordan (1)Russia (1)Soviet Union (1)Syria (1)United Kingdom (2)United States (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 281959 Tibetan uprisingMilitary Conflict1973 Chilean Coup d'EtatMilitary Conflict1999 war in DagestanMilitary Conflict2008 Tibetan unrestMilitary Conflict2011 Bahraini uprisingMilitary ConflictAlgerian War of IndependenceMilitary ConflictCambodian GenocideMilitary ConflictCongo CrisisMilitary ConflictCuban Missile CrisisMilitary ConflictCuban RevolutionMilitary ConflictFalklands WarMilitary ConflictFebruary 28 incidentMilitary ConflictGwangju UprisingMilitary ConflictIran-Iraq WarMilitary ConflictKorean WarMilitary ConflictLatin American Debt CrisisMilitary ConflictMau Mau UprisingMilitary ConflictNigerian Civil WarMilitary ConflictRwandan GenocideMilitary ConflictSix-Day WarMilitary ConflictSmallpox Eradication (1967 to 1980)Military ConflictSoviet-Afghan WarMilitary ConflictSoweto uprisingMilitary ConflictSuez CrisisMilitary ConflictThe Fall of the Berlin WallMilitary ConflictThe September 11 AttacksMilitary ConflictVietnam WarMilitary ConflictYemeni revolutionMilitary ConflictSources1. Wikipedia: Contemporary historytier 2WikipediaContemporary history, lead section, span sentenceQuote, Contemporary history, lead section, span sentenceContemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from about 1945 to the present.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.