International Crisis - List of Defused Crises

List of Defused Crises

International crises tend to result in war, almost by definition; they are then remembered best not as crises but as causes of wars. For information on international crises that resulted immediately in war, see List of wars.

Given the above, some of the crises that are best-known as crises were defused. The following crises did not immediately provoke large-scale violence, but set of anger in countries:

  • Anglo-Portuguese Crisis (1889-1890)
  • Fashoda Incident (1898-1899)
  • First Moroccan Crisis (1904-1906)
  • Bosnian crisis (1908-1909)
  • Agadir Crisis (1911)
  • Åland crisis (1916-1920)
  • Remilitarization of the Rhineland (1936)
  • Anschluss (1938)
  • Sudetenland Crisis (1938)
  • Iran crisis (1946-1947)
  • Berlin Blockade (1948-1949)
  • Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
  • Pueblo incident (1968)
  • Damansky Island Crisis (1969)
  • 1973 Chilean coup
  • Axe Murder Incident (1976)
  • Beagle conflict (1978)
  • Iran hostage crisis (1979)
  • Able Archer 83 (1983)
  • 2001 Indian Parliament attack (2001)
  • November 2008 Mumbai attacks (2008)
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