Wars involving Laos

World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, the latter enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the only nuclear weapons used in war. World War II was the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 60 to 75 million people. Millions died as a result of massacres, starvation, disease, and genocides, including the Holocaust. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.

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 Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until US forces were withdrawn in 1973.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.

1946–1954 French colonial war in Vietnam

1959–1975 civil war in Laos

series of wars fought in Southeast Asia from 1946 until 1991

short confrontation between Thai and Laotian forces (December 1987 – February 1988)

series of wars in Indochina following the end of the Vietnam War

military conflict

Anouvong's Rebellion

conflicts against Chinese paramilitary refugee gangs invading parts of Tonkin and Thailand

military conflict fought between the Kingdom of Ayutthaya (Siam) and the Kingdom of Burma

15th c. conflict in southeast Asia

Vietnamese military conflicts

war between Laos and China in 1967