Wars involving the Soviet Union

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.

1947–1991 tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies

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 Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until US forces were withdrawn in 1973.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

war between North and South Korea, 1950–1953

The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States. The coalition's efforts were in two phases: Operation Desert Shield, which marked the military buildup from August 1990 to January 1991; and Operation Desert Storm, from the bombing campaign against Iraq on 17 January until the American-led liberation of Kuwait on 28 February.

multi-sided civil war in the former Russian Empire, November 1917-October 1922

1979–1989 war between the Soviet Union and Afghan insurgents

1956 revolution in Hungary

1946–1954 French colonial war in Vietnam

armed conflict in Angola between 1975 and 2002

1969 undeclared conflict between USSR and People's Republic of China

1977-78 Somali military offensive over the disputed Ogaden region of Ethiopia

1961–1991 conflict within Ethiopia

conflict in northwestern Iran

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

armed conflict in the 1930s between the Soviets, Mongolians, and Japanese

civil war in Afghanistan between 1989–1992

Border conflict between China and the Soviet Union in 1929

1940 Soviet annexation of territory in eastern Romania; Moldavian SSR established

1924 failed insurrection against Soviet rule in the Georgian SSR

1975-present conflict in the Angolan exclave of Cabinda

anti-Soviet resistance during and after World War II

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Vainakh revolt against the Soviet authorities

1940's Soviet-backed uprising in China

conflict in Xinjiang (1931–1934)

1944–1953 resistance against the communist government in Poland

series of wars between the USSR and Finland

involvement of Mongolia in World War II

1932 civil conflict in China

part of the Xinjiang Wars

Ukrainian nationalist Insurgency against the Soviet Union

dimension of the world-wide Cold War that shaped largely diplomacy and warfare from the mid-1940s to 1991

border conflict between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union