Cold War rebellions

1956 revolution in Hungary

1974 revolution in Portugal

series of protests during 1989 overthrowing communist governments in Eastern Europe

1946–1949 civil war in Greece

uprising against the German Democratic Republic

1948–1960 conflict in British Malaya

1947 uprising in Taiwan

The Contras (from ) were the anti-communist right-wing rebels who waged a guerrilla war against the Marxist Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and the Junta of National Reconstruction, which came to power after the Nicaraguan Revolution in 1979. The insurgency against the Sandinista government lasted from 1979 until 1990, and was one of the highest profile conflicts of the Cold War.

armed conflicts in Afghanistan since 1978

1948–49 uprising in Jeju Island, South Korea

December 1970 unrest in Poland

Polish period of liberalisation and destalinisation

anti-Soviet resistance during and after World War II

also known as the 'al-Fateh Revolution' or the '1 September Revolution'

1964 rebellion in Congo-Kinshasa

armed rebellion against the Cuban government from 1959 to 1965

armed conflict in Malaysia from 1968 to 1989

resistance against Soviet regime after World War II

gulag prisoner revolt

political party

1944–1962 armed resistance movement against communist rule in Romania

1987 revolt in Communist Romania

1970 anti-military riot in Okinawa, Japan

communist insurgency in Malaysia

Croatian anti-communist terrorist group

rebellion in Afghanistan

1953 strike by Gulag inmates

Prison revolt in the USSR

1961 revolt against Portuguese rule of Angola

1948 Indonesian conflict against leftists

revolt in southern Korea against US Military Government policies

attempted coup in Sri Lanka

Demonstrations in Plzeň against curreny reform

1979 insurrection attempt in Kabul, Afghanistan

Protests in Poland

uprising and fatalities in Kabul

rebellion in DR Congo (1963-65)

armed revolt in Sri Lanka

overthrow of Somali communism and Somali socialism in Somalia

ongoing low-level insurgency in eastern Turkey between the Turkish government and Maoist rebels

1979 insurrection in Old Kabul

mutiny by soldiers of the army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at Léopoldville and Thysville garrisons

rebel force in Cambodia

anti-communist insurgencies fought against the Soviet Union and its satellite states after World War II

Libyan coup d'état attempt