1960s conflicts

The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until US forces were withdrawn in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian civil wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.

violent conflict within Nigeria

conflict in Angola between 1961 and 1975

civil conflict in Southern Africa from 1964 to 1979

war on the border of South West Africa/Namibia and Angola

1962–1970 civil war in North Yemen

ongoing dispute between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots

separatist conflict in the region of West Papua

1961–1970 conflict between Iraq and Kurdish militias

period of political rivalry in the Arab world

rebellion against Presidents François Tombalbaye and Félix Malloum

military repression of the Mexican government, backed by the US government, against leftist movements in the 1960s and 1980s

1955-1974 conflicts in Cyprus

international conflict