Conflict |
Start date |
End date |
Western Bloc related
|
Eastern Bloc related |
Region
|
1960 U-2 incident |
May 1, 1960 |
May 1, 1960 |
United States
|
Soviet Union |
Eastern Europe
|
Congo Crisis |
June 30, 1960 |
November 25, 1965 |
Democratic Republic of the Congo
United States
Belgium
Katanga
South Kasai
|
Free Republic of the Congo
Kwilu and Simba rebels
|
Central Africa
|
Guatemalan Civil War |
November 13, 1960 |
December 19, 1996 |
Government of Guatemala Mano Blanca
United States
|
PGT FAR URNG
|
Central America
|
Portuguese Colonial War |
February 4, 1961 |
April 25, 1974 |
Portugal
|
MPLA
FNLA
UNITA
FLEC
PAIGC
FRELIMO
|
Western/Southern Africa
|
Angolan War of Independence |
February 4, 1961 |
January 15, 1975 |
Portugal South Africa
|
MPLA
FNLA
UNITA
FLEC RDL
|
Southern Africa
|
Bay of Pigs Invasion |
April 17, 1961 |
April 19, 1961 |
United States
Cuban DRF
|
Cuba
|
Caribbean
|
Berlin Crisis of 1961 |
June 4, 1961 |
November 9, 1961 |
West Germany
United States
United Kingdom
France
|
East Germany
Soviet Union
|
Western Europe
|
Nicaraguan Revolution |
July 23, 1961 |
April 25, 1990 |
Somoza regime Contras
United States
|
FSLN Panama (1978-1979)
|
Central America
|
Eritrean War of Independence |
September 1, 1961 |
May 29, 1991 |
Before 1974:
Ethiopian Empire
After 1974: ELF
EPLF TPLF
|
Before 1974: ELF
EPLF
After 1974: PDR Ethiopia
Soviet Union
Cuba
|
Eastern Africa
|
Operation Trikora |
December 19, 1961 |
August 15, 1962 |
Netherlands
Dutch New Guinea
|
Indonesia
Soviet Union
|
Southeast Asia
|
North Yemen Civil War
|
September 26, 1962
|
December 1, 1970
|
Kingdom of Yemen
Saudi Arabia
|
Yemen Arab Republic
Egypt
|
Western Asia
|
Cuban Missile Crisis |
October 14, 1962 |
October 28, 1962 |
United States
Italy
Turkey
|
Soviet Union
Cuba
|
Caribbean
|
Sino-Indian War |
October 20, 1962 |
November 21, 1962 |
China
|
India
|
Southern Asia
|
Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation |
January 20, 1963 |
August 11, 1966 |
Malaysia
United Kingdom
Brunei
Australia
New Zealand
|
Indonesia
NKCP PRB
|
Southeast Asia
|
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence |
January 23, 1963 |
September 11, 1974 |
Portugal
|
PAIGC
Guinea (1970 only)
Cuba
|
Western Africa
|
Ar-Rashid revolt
|
July 3, 1963
|
July 3, 1963
|
Iraqi Republic
|
Iraqi Army
Iraqi Communist Party
|
Western Asia
|
1964 Brazilian coup d'état |
March 31, 1964 |
April 1, 1964 |
Brazilian Armed Forces
Supported by:
United States
|
Fourth Brazilian Republic
|
South America
|
Rhodesian Bush War |
March 31, 1964 |
December 12, 1979 |
Southern Rhodesia (1964–1965)
Rhodesia (1965–1979)
Zimbabwe Rhodesia (1979)
South Africa
|
ZANU (ZANLA)
FRELIMO
ZAPU (ZIPRA)
ANC (MK)
|
Southern Africa
|
Mexican Dirty War |
December 1, 1964 |
December 1, 1982 |
Mexico
Supported by:
United States
|
Left-wing groups
|
North America
|
Mozambican War of Independence |
September 25, 1964 |
September 8, 1974 |
Portugal
|
FRELIMO
|
Eastern Africa
|
Colombian conflict |
May 27, 1964 |
Present |
Colombia
|
Far-Left Guerrillas
FARC
ELN
EPL
M-19 MOEC MAQL
AUC
Medellín Cartel
|
South America
|
Communist insurgency in Thailand |
January 1, 1965 |
April 26, 1983 |
Thailand
Republic of China (until 1967)
Malaysia
United States
|
Communist Party of Thailand Pathet Lao
Khmer Rouge (until 1978)
Malayan Communist Party
|
Southeast Asia
|
Dominican Civil War |
April 24, 1965 |
September 3, 1965 |
Dominican Republic (Loyalist military government)
United States
IAPF
|
Dominican Republic (Constitutionalist)
|
Caribbean
|
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 |
August 15, 1965 |
September 23, 1965 |
Pakistan
|
India |
Indian subcontinent
|
30 September Movement |
September 30, 1965 |
October 1, 1965 |
Suharto-backed Armed Forces
Supported by:
United States
|
Sukarno government
Communist Party of Indonesia
China
|
Southeast Asia
|
Indonesian killings of 1965–66 |
October 1, 1965 |
March 1966 |
Indonesia
|
PKI Gerwani Abangan atheists and Kafir ethnic Chinese |
Southeast Asia
|
Cultural Revolution |
May 16, 1966 |
October 6, 1976 |
Liu Shaoqi government
|
Mao Zedong government Red Guards |
Eastern Asia
|
South African Border War |
August 26, 1966 |
March 21, 1990 |
South Africa
Portugal (until 1975)
UNITA (from 1975)
FNLA
|
SWAPO (PLAN)
MPLA (FAPLA)
Cuba
SWANU
ANC (MK)
Zambia
|
Southern Africa
|
Ñancahuazú Guerrilla |
November 3, 1966 |
October 9, 1967 |
Bolivia
United States
|
National Liberation Army of Bolivia |
South America
|
Cambodian Civil War |
March 11, 1967 |
April 17, 1975 |
Kingdom of Cambodia (1968–1970)
Khmer Republic (1970–1975)
United States
South Vietnam
|
Khmer Rouge
GRUNK (1970–1975)
FUNK
Khmer Rumdo
North Vietnam
Viet Cong
|
Southeast Asia
|
Six-Day War |
June 5, 1967 |
June 10, 1967 |
Israel
|
Egypt
Syria
Jordan Iraq
Saudi Arabia
|
Western Asia
|
War of Attrition |
July 1, 1967 |
August 7, 1970
|
Israel
|
Egypt
Soviet Union
PLO
Jordan
Syria
Cuba
Kuwait
|
Western Asia
|
Communist Insurgency in Malaysia |
June 17, 1968 |
December 2, 1989 |
Malaysia
Singapore
Thailand
|
Malayan Communist Party
Malayan National Liberation Army
North Kalimantan Communist Party
Communist Party of Thailand (until 1983)
|
Southeast Asia
|
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia |
August 20, 1968 |
August 21, 1968 |
Czechoslovakia
|
Warsaw Pact:
|
Eastern Europe
|
Sino-Soviet border conflict |
March 2, 1969 |
September 11, 1969 |
China
|
Soviet Union
|
Eastern Asia
|
1969 Sudanese coup d'état
|
May 25, 1969
|
May 25, 1969
|
SAF Free Officers Movement
|
Sudan
|
North Africa
|
Football War |
July 14, 1969 |
July 18, 1969 |
El Salvador
|
Honduras
|
Central America
|
1969 Libyan coup d'état |
September 1, 1969 |
September 1, 1969 |
Kingdom of Libya
Cyrenaican Defence Force
|
Free Officers Movement
|
North Africa
|
1969 Somali coup d'état |
October 21, 1969 |
October 21, 1969 |
Somali Republic
|
Supreme Revolutionary Council
|
Eastern Africa
|