Cold War conflicts

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

Incident where USS Yorktown bumped into Soviet frigate Bezzavetney in the Black Sea

late 1970s–early 1990s military and political crisis in Central America

historical military conflict

constitutional crisis in San Marino

period of Moroccan history between the 1960s and 1980s

Insurgency movement in Brasil

aspect of history

ship incident in the Black Sea

1981–1991 war of national liberation in Somalia

The ' (variously translated from Kirundi as the Catastrophe, the Great Calamity, and the Scourge), or the (Killings'), was a series of mass killings—often characterised as a genocide—which were committed in Burundi in 1972 by the Tutsi-dominated army and government, primarily against educated and elite Hutus who lived in the country. Conservative estimates place the death toll of the event between 100,000 and 150,000 killed, while some estimates of the death toll go as high as 300,000.

Coup d'état in El Salvador

1975–76 South African incursion during the Border War

Chinese Nationalist forces in Vietnam post-World War II

affair between Western European powers, the USSR, and the United States regarding the deployment of intermediate range nuclear weapons in Europe.

armed conflict in Cambodia