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Wars involving the Soviet Union
- Cold WarOn the 5th of March 1946, former British prime minister Winston Churchill delivered a speech in Fulton, Missouri, that would define the opening chapter of…
- First Indochina WarIn September 1940, Japan launched its invasion of French Indochina while Germany had already conquered metropolitan France.
- Russian Civil WarThe Russian Civil War erupted from the ashes of World War I and the collapse of imperial authority. In February 1917, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated his throne…
- Vietnam WarOn the 2nd of September 1945, Ho Chi Minh declared the independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. This declaration came after years of struggle…
- Gulf WarOn the 2nd of August 1990, Iraqi tanks rolled across the border into Kuwait City. The invasion began with a bombing of the capital and lasted only two days…
- Korean WarOn the 10th of August 1945, Soviet forces entered northern Korea and secured most major cities by the 24th of August. US Colonels Dean Rusk and Charles H.
- Hungarian Revolution of 1956In 1945, the Red Army entered Budapest after a brutal siege that left the city in ruins. The Soviet Union established control over Hungary, transforming it…
- Soviet–Afghan WarIn 1893, British civil servant Mortimer Durand drew a line across the Pamir Mountains that would haunt Afghanistan for over a century.
- World War IIThe Second World War began on the 1st of September 1939 and ended on the 2nd of September 1945. This global conflict involved nearly every country in the…
- Sino-Soviet border conflictIn 1964, the Chinese government revisited border demarcations originally imposed upon the Qing dynasty by the Russian Empire through unequal treaties.
- Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern BukovinaIn 1812, the Treaty of Bucharest transferred Bessarabia from the Ottoman Empire to the Russian Empire. This region had been a vassal state of the Ottomans as…