Modern Conflicts
Some of the events pivotal in the Asia territory related to the relationship with the outside world in the post-Second World War were:
- The Korean War
- The Vietnam War
- The Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation
- The Iranian Revolution
- The Soviet War in Afghanistan
- The Iran–Iraq War
- The Killing Fields in Cambodia
- The Sri Lankan Civil War
- The Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- The 1991 Gulf War
- The India-Pakistan Wars
- The 2006 Thai coup d'état
- The Burmese Civil War
- The Islamic Awakening (Arab Spring)
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