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Graph of conflict deaths from 1990 to 2002. The spike of one-sided violence in 1994 is mostly due to the Rwandan genocide. This is a list of wars that began between 1990 and 2002. Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.
1991–1992: 1991–92 South Ossetia War; 1989: Romanian Revolution; 1990: Leopoldov prison uprising; 1990: Log Revolution; 1990–1991: Soviet OMON assaults on Lithuanian border posts; 1990–present: Transnistria conflict. 1990–1992: Transnistria War; 1991: January Events (Lithuania) 1991: The Barricades; 1991–1995: Croatian War of ...
The Cold War defined the political role of the United States after World War II. By 1989, the United States had military alliances with 50 countries and 1.5 million troops posted abroad in 117 countries, which institutionalized a global commitment to a huge permanent peacetime military-industrial complex and the large-scale military funding of ...
The 1990s (often referred and shortened to as "the '90s" or "nineties") was the decade that began on 1 January 1990, and ended on 31 December 1999. Known as the "post-Cold War decade", the 1990s were culturally imagined as the period from the Revolutions of 1989 until the September 11 attacks in 2001. [1]
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1945 to 1989 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1945 and 1989.Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.
Pages in category "1990s conflicts" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. ... Cabinda War; Cambodian conflict (1979–1998) Casamance conflict;
The 1990 oil price shock occurred in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, [1] Saddam Hussein's second invasion of a fellow OPEC member. Lasting only nine months, the price spike was less extreme and of shorter duration than the previous oil crises of 1973–1974 and 1979–1980, but the spike still contributed to the recession of the early 1990s in the United States. [2]
After the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Gulf War of 1990–1991 is often known as the "First Iraq War". [ 33 ] The following names have been used to describe the conflict itself: Gulf War and Persian Gulf War are the most common terms for the conflict used within western countries , though it may also be called the First Gulf War (to ...