Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1900 to 1944 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1900 and 1944.. This period saw the outbreak of World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), which are among the deadliest conflicts in human history, with many of the world's great powers partaking in total war and some partaking in genocides.
In 1906, official histories were being written by three departments at the War Office and one in the Admiralty. Lord Esher, a member of the Committee of Imperial Defence, suggested that a subcommittee be established as the Historical Section, to centralise the collection of army and navy archives, as a repository of the lessons of war for strategists.
This is a timeline of the main events of the Cold War, a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union, its allies in the Warsaw Pact and later the People's Republic of China).
July 9 – The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile organises the youth event of Acto de Chacarillas, [29] a ritualised act reminiscent of Francoist Spain. [30] July 10 – A temperature of 48.0 °C (118.4 °F), a record for continental Europe, is recorded in Greece. [31] July 13. Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ethio-Somali War.
Among the issues leading to the war were British impressment of American sailors into the Royal Navy, interception of neutral ships and blockades of the United States during British hostilities with France, and support for Indian attacks on American settlers in the Northwest Territory. The war ended with the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.
0–9. 1979 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état; 1979 Herat uprising; 1979 International Women's Day protests in Tehran; 1979 Khuzestan insurgency; 1979 Mauritanian coup d'état; 1979 uprisings in Afghanistan
May – July: The Fourth Indo-Pakistani War. June 11: The end of the Kosovo War ends the Yugoslav Wars. August 3: At least 58 people die and hundreds of homes are buried in a massive landslide in Cherry Hills subdivision in Antipolo, Rizal, which has caused by the heavy rains brought by Typhoon Olga. August 26: The Second Chechen War begins.