Wars of National Liberation - Conflicts

Conflicts

Conflicts which have been described as national liberation struggles:

  • The American Revolution
  • The Haitian Revolution
  • The Spanish American wars of independence
  • The American Civil War
  • The Peninsular War against Napoleon's occupation of Spain during the Napoleonic Wars
  • Explicit wars of decolonization:
    • The Philippine Revolution
    • The August Revolution, against Japanese invasion of Vietnam
    • The First Indochina War, against French occupation of Vietnam
    • The Indonesian National Revolution
    • The Palestinian resistance to Israeli control of the disputed Palestinian territories.
    • The Tamil resistance to Sri Lankan colonization in Tamil-speaking territories and discrimination against the Tamil people.
    • The Zionist armed insurrection in British-ruled Mandate Palestine, involving the Lehi, and Irgun, and later the Haganah, later on called the Israeli War of Independence.
    • The Madagascar revolt against the French in 1947
    • The Algerian war of independence against France (1954–1962).
    • In Angola (MPLA, FNLA, UNITA), Mozambique (FRELIMO), Guinea-Bissau (PAIGC, FLING), and Cape Verde (PAIGC) against Portugal
    • In Cameroon, by the UPC against France
    • In South Yemen by various nationalist organizations against Britain
    • The Mau Mau revolt in British-ruled Kenya
    • The Shifta war in somali north eastern province kenya
    • The Second Chimurenga (a/k/a Rhodesian Bush War) in Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe), led by ZANU and ZAPU
    • In Western Sahara, by the Saharan Liberation Army against Spain & France, and by the Polisario Front against Morocco & Mauritania occupation.
    • In Namibia, by SWAPO and SWANU against apartheid South Africa
    • The Dhofar Rebellion in Muscat and Oman
    • The Brunei Revolt
  • The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, fought by the newly created State of Israel on one side, and Palestinians and supportive Arab states on the other.
  • Vietnam War, against South Vietnam with American assistance against the NLF/NVA.
  • In Afghanistan, against the occupying Soviet Army.
  • In Ireland, the Irish War of Independence and The Troubles in Northern Ireland; also, the Provisional IRA insurgency against the United Kingdom, aimed at creating a socialist republic within a united Ireland, from 1969 until 1998.
  • In Cambodia, against the occupying Vietnamese Army and People's Republic of Kampuchea.
  • In Nicaragua, by Augusto Sandino's forces against the occupying U.S. Marines.
  • In Chad, by FROLINAT against the Tombalbaye dictatorship
  • In South Africa, against apartheid by Umkhonto we Sizwe and Poqo.
  • In China, the Second Sino-Japanese War against Imperial Japanese subjugation of China.
  • the Bangladesh Liberation War against West Pakistan
  • the Eritrean War of Independence against Ethiopia
  • In West Papua, by the Organisasi Papua Merdeka against Indonesia
  • In Bougainville, by the Bougainville Revolutionary Army against Papua New Guinea
  • In Canada during 1837 and in subsequent years English Canadian and French Canadian reformers of William Lyon Mackenzie and the patriotes of Louis Joseph Papineau fought the British Empire for the independence of Canada. See Rebellions of 1837
  • The Turkish War of Independence
  • The Ogaden war of 1977 against Ethiopia

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