Major International Disputes Since 1945
- 1944-47 – involved in Greek Civil War
- 1945-46 - Parliament approves a $3.75 billion low-interest loan from the U.S. Treasury in 1946, plus $1.2 billion from Canada.
- 1947-1989 - Cold War with Soviet Union
- 1948-1949 – Berlin Blockade - dispute with USSR over access to West Berlin
- 1948-1960 – Malayan Emergency - armed conflict against the Communist forces of the Malayan National Liberation Army
- 1949 - Britain becomes founding member of NATO.
- 1950-1953 – Korean War - war with North Korea
- 1951-1954 – Abadan Crisis - dispute with Iran over expropriated oil assets
- 1956-1957 – Suez Crisis - armed conflict with Egypt, and dispute with most of international community
- 1958 – First Cod War - fishing dispute with Iceland
- 1962-1966 – Konfrontasi - war with Indonesia
- 1972-1973 – Second Cod War - fishing dispute with Iceland
- 1975-1976 – Third Cod War - fishing dispute with Iceland
- 1982 – Falklands War - war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands
- 1983 – complaint to the United States over its invasion of Grenada.
- 1984 – dispute with Libya after a policewoman is shot dead in London by a gunman from within the Libyan embassy.
- 1988 – further dispute with Libya over the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over the Scottish town of Lockerbie
- 1991 – Gulf War with Iraq
- 1995 – under UN mandate, military involvement in Yugoslavia (specifically Bosnia)
- 1997 - Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule. Britain secures guarantees for a "special status" that would continue capitalism and British properties.
- 1999 – involvement in NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia over Kosovo
- 2001 – UN-sponsored war against, and subsequent occupation of, Afghanistan
- 2003 – Collaborate with US and others in war and occupation of, Iraq
- 2007 – (ongoing) diplomatic dispute with Russia over the death of Alexander Litvinenko
- 2009 – (ongoing) Dispute with Iran over its alleged nuclear weapons programme and Iranian condemnation of the British government
- 2011 - under UN mandate, UK Armed Forces participated in enforcing the Libyan No-Fly Zone as part of Operation Ellamy
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