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Guerrilla wars

  • Second Chechen WarIn February 1944, the Soviet Union ordered the entire Chechen people to leave their homes. They were forced onto trains and sent to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan…
  • First Indochina WarIn September 1940, Japan launched its invasion of French Indochina while Germany had already conquered metropolitan France.
  • Second Boer WarIn June 1884, Jan Gerrit Bantjes discovered a massive gold deposit on the Witwatersrand ridge south of Pretoria. This find triggered an influx of thousands…
  • Malayan EmergencyThe economic disruption of World War II on British Malaya led to widespread unemployment, low wages, and high levels of food price inflation.
  • The TroublesIn 1609, Scottish and English settlers known as planters received land taken from native Irish people during the Plantation of Ulster.
  • Greek Civil WarIn April 1941, German forces advanced on Athens while King George II and his government fled to Egypt. They established a government-in-exile that lacked…
  • Guatemalan Civil WarIn 1871, General Justo Rufino Barrios seized power in Guatemala and immediately began a campaign to transform the nation's economy.