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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.
Cold War (Indirect War) 1946: 1991: 45 years Chadian Civil Wars: 1965: 2010: 45 years Internal conflict in Peru: 17 May 1980: Ongoing: 44 years and 8 months Maoist insurgency in Turkey: 12 September 1980: Ongoing: 44 years, 4 months and 5 days Kongo Civil War: 1665: 1709: 44 years Sino-Dutch conflicts: 1620: 1662: 42 years Thirty-Eight Years ...
Tolkien was reluctant to explain influences on his writing, specifically denying that The Lord of the Rings was an allegory of the Second World War, but admitting to certain connections with the Great War. His friend and fellow-Inkling C. S. Lewis however described the work as having just the quality of the Great War in many of its descriptions.
Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth is a 2003 biography by John Garth of the philologist and fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien's early life, focusing on his formative military experiences during the First World War. The book was warmly welcomed by Tolkien scholars as filling in an important gap in biographical coverage.
US-allied victory - The American Revolution started as a civil war within the British Empire. [nb 1] It became a larger international war in 1778 once France joined. [nb 2] Treaty of Paris (1783) Britain recognizes the independence of the United States of America and the Thirteen Colonies. President of the Continental Congress in American ...
The coldest winter for fifty-nine years in the Ohio Valley region [3] and a record dry year throughout the West, [19] especially the Pacific Northwest, [20] creates heating fuel and water shortages plus extended freezing of the Great Lakes [21] and freezing of the Mississippi River as far as Cairo, Illinois.
December 2: end of the Second Malayan Emergency with the Peace Agreement of Hat Yai 1989. December 3: at the end of the Malta Summit, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush declare that a long-lasting era of peace has begun. Many observers regard this summit as the official beginning of the end of the Cold War.
The war disrupted the cross-border trade and smuggling activities of the Bedouins, a nomadic people who resided in both countries. [42] Thousands of Egyptians residing in Libya and employed in the civil service, oil industry, agriculture, commerce, and education subsequently left the country, upsetting the economy and hampering public services ...