Year
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Region
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Historical Hint
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Conflict
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1914 - 1918
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mainly Europe
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Gas was used first time
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The Great War
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1920 - 1927
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Africa
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conflict parties are Spain, france vs. Berber Rebels
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Rif War
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1927 - 1950
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Asia
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Chiang Kai-shek vs. Mao Zedong
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Chinese Civil War
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1936 - 1939
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Europe
|
Legion Condor, Franco, fashism
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Spanish Civil War
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1939 - 1940
|
Europe
|
Mannerheim - Line, Russia, Simo Häyhä
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Winter War (Finno-Russian War)
|
1939 - 1945
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World Wide
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Normandy, Stalingrad, Hitler, Got it already?!
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World War 2
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1946 - 1954
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Asia
|
Viet Minh vs. France, Dien Bien Phu
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1. Indochina War
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1950 - 1953
|
Asia
|
Harry Truman, Douglas Mac Arthur, 38th Parallel
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Korean War
|
1954 - 1962
|
Africa
|
France, french foreign legion, Guerilla-War tactics
|
Algerian War of Independence
|
1955 - 1975
|
Asia
|
Viet Cong, Ho Chi Minh, USA
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2. Indochina War (Vietnam War)
|
1966 - 1990
|
Africa
|
Country was known as German South East Africa until WW1
|
Namibian War of Independence
|
1967
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Middle East
|
Mosche Dajan, Nassar, conquered territories after the war: Gaza Strip Golan hights, Sinai, East Jerusalem
|
6-Day War (Arab-Israeli War)
|
1971
|
Asia
|
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Indo-Pakistani War
|
1973
|
Middle East
|
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Yom Kippur War (Arab-Israeli War)
|
1975 - 1990
|
Middle East
|
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Lebanese Civil War
|
1975 - 2002
|
Africa
|
Military support mainly by Cuba, Soviet Union. Conflict Parties UNITA vs. MPLA
|
Angolan Civil War
|
1978 - present
|
Asia
|
Osama Bin Laden, Soviet Union, USA, NATO, ISAF
|
Afghanistan War
|
1980 - 1988
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Middle East
|
Saddam - Hussein vs. Ayatollah Khomeini, United States, Soviet Union, France, and most Arab countries provided support for one conflict party against the other.
|
Iran-Iraq War
|
1982
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South America
|
Margareth Thatcher, Belgrano Disaster, Goose Green, Exo-Sets
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Falklands War (Malvinas)
|
1990 - 1991
|
Middle East
|
General Schwarzkopf, George Bush Senior, Saddam Hussein, Kuwait
|
1. Gulf War
|
1990 - 1994
|
Africa
|
Ethnic Cleansing: Hutu vs.Tutsi, former belgium colony
|
Rwandan Civil War
|
1994 - 1996
|
Asia
|
Grozni, Caucasus, Soviet Union
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1. Chechen War
|
1991 - 1999
|
Europe
|
Ethnic Cleansing, Serbia, Muslems
|
Yugoslav War
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