The Falklands War was a ten-week conflict fought from 2 April to 14 June 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands and the dependencies of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic, after Argentina's military government invaded the British-administered islands to bolster its domestic standing amid economic crisis. Britain, under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, dispatched a naval task force across roughly eight thousand miles of ocean to retake the islands, and after seventy-four days of fighting at sea, in the air and on land, Argentine forces surrendered on 14 June 1982. The war confirmed British sovereignty over the islands and precipitated the collapse of Argentina's military junta the following year, while cementing Thatcher's political standing at home. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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LocationThe Falkland Islands and South Georgia, South Atlantic Ocean 1 Death Toll, Low Estimate Connections
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The conflict lasted 74 days and ended with an Argentine surrender on 14 June, which formally returned possession to Britain.
Lead section (dates)
Operations lasted from 1 April 1982 to 20 June 1982.
Lead section (year)
Operations lasted from 1 April 1982 to 20 June 1982.
Lead section (location)
The Argentine military junta, suspecting that the UK would reinforce its South Atlantic Forces, ordered the invasion of the Falkland Islands to be brought forward to 2 April.
Lead section (casualties)
649 Argentine and 255 British service members were killed, along with three Falkland Islanders
Lead section (casualties, total)
649 Argentine and 255 British service members were killed, along with three Falkland Islanders
Falklands War: Event Type
The Falklands War was a ten-week conflict fought from 2 April to 14 June 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands and the dependencies of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic, after Argentina's military government invaded the British-administered islands to bolster its domestic standing amid economic crisis.
Associated With: Argentina, Lead section (belligerent)
ended with an Argentine surrender on 14 June
Associated With: United Kingdom, Lead section (formal return of possession)
which formally returned possession to Britain
In Group: Events of the Late Cold War and After, 1970 to 1999, Lead
The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas) was a ten-week war in the South Atlantic in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over possession of the Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas) and its dependencies of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
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