Conflict | Start date | End date | Western Bloc related | Eastern Bloc related | Region |
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Black September in Jordan | September 1, 1970 | July 1971 | Jordan
Pakistan | PLO Syria
Iranian guerillas: | Western Asia |
First Quarter Storm | January 1970 | March 1970 | Government of Philippines | Moderate Opposition
Communist Party of the Philippines
Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930
| Southeast Asia |
Bangladesh Liberation War | March 26, 1971 | December 16, 1971 | Pakistan Supported by:
United States
United Kingdom
France
China
Jordan
Iran
Saudi Arabia
Ceylon
Libya | Provisional Government of Bangladesh
India Supported by:
Soviet Union | South Asia |
1971 JVP insurrection | April 5, 1971 | June 1971 | Ceylon -
Sri Lankan Coalition (from May 15)
| JVP | South Asia |
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 | December 3, 1971 | December 16, 1971 | Pakistan Supported by:
United States
United Kingdom
China
Jordan
Iran
Saudi Arabia
Ceylon
Libya | Provisional Government of Bangladesh
India Supported by:
Soviet Union
Israel | South Asia |
1970s operation in Balochistan | February 1973 | December 1978 | Pakistan Supported by:
Iran
United States | Baloch separatists Supported by:
Republic of Afghanistan
India
Iraq
Soviet Union (from 1974) | South Asia |
1973 Uruguayan coup d'état | June 27, 1973 | June 28, 1973 | Uruguayan Civic-military regime | General Assembly of Uruguay | South America |
1973 Chilean coup d'état | September 11, 1973 | September 11, 1973 | Chilean Armed Forces Supported by:
United States | Chilean Government MIR | South America |
Armed resistance in Chile (1973–90) | September 11, 1973 | March 11, 1990 | Military dictatorship of Chile
United States
| Guerrillas: | South America |
Yom Kippur War | October 6, 1973 | October 25, 1973 | Israel Supported by:
United States | Egypt
Syria Expeditionary forces:
Saudi Arabia
Algeria
Jordan
Sudan
Iraq
Libya
Kuwait
Tunisia
Morocco
Cuba Supported by:
Soviet Union
East Germany
North Korea
Pakistan
Lebanon | Western Asia |
Carnation Revolution | April 24, 1974 | April 25, 1974 | Portuguese New State regime (isolacionist, mostly unsupported) | Rebeling portuguese Armed Forces Movement (a catch-all movement, including communists) | Western Europe |
Ongoing Revolutionary Process | April 25, 1974 | November 25, 1975 | National Salvation Junta (After the failed March 11, 1975 coup by Spínola, reformed into:) Revolutionary Council's moderates | Communist armed forces revolutionaries, mostly led by Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho & Vasco Gonçalves. | Western Europe |
Ethiopian Civil War | November 28, 1974 | May 21, 1991 | EPRDF EPRP MEISON (from 1977)
EDU
OLF
WSLF
ALF
ONLF Eritrean separatists:
Supported by:
Libya
Somalia
Syria
Iraq
Saudi Arabia | Derg (1974–1987)
PDR Ethiopia (1987–1991) MEISON (until 1977) Supported by:
Soviet Union (1974–1990)
Cuba (1974–1990)
South Yemen (1974–1990)
North Korea
Israel (from 1990) | Eastern Africa |
Operation Independence | February 5, 1975 | September 28, 1977 | Argentina | ERP
Montoneros | South America |
Lebanese Civil War | April 13, 1975 | October 13, 1990 | Israel
Lebanese Front
Army of Free Lebanon
South Lebanon Army
Tigers Militia
Lebanese Armed Forces
UNIFIL
| Lebanese National Movement
Jammoul
Lebanese Communist Party
Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Lebanon
PLO
Syria (1976, 1983–1991)
Amal Movement
PNSF
Arab Deterrent Force
| Near East |
Angolan Civil War | November 11, 1975 | April 4, 2002 | UNITA
FNLA
South Africa
Zaire
FLEC
| MPLA
Cuba
Brazil
SWAPO
ANC Executive Outcomes
FLNC
Namibia | Southern Africa |
Indonesian invasion of East Timor | December 7, 1975 | July 17, 1976 | Indonesia | East Timor | Southeast Asia |
Operation Entebbe | July 4, 1976 | July 4, 1976 | Israel Supported by:
Kenya | PFLP-EO
Revolutionary Cells
Uganda | Western Africa |
1976 Argentine coup d'état | March 24, 1976 | March 24, 1976 | Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic Supported by:
United States | Government of Argentina | South America |
Islamist uprising in Syria | May 31, 1976 | February 28, 1982 | Muslim Brotherhood Pro-Iraqi Ba'athists Supported by:
Iraq (1980–1982)
West Germany
Jordan | Syrian government Supported by:
Soviet Union | Western Asia |
Insurgency in Aceh | December 4, 1976 | August 15, 2005 | Indonesia Supported by:
United States | Free Aceh Movement Supported by:
Libya | Southeast Asia |
Shaba I | March 8, 1977 | May 26, 1977 | Zaire
Morocco
Egypt
France
Belgium | Front for the National Liberation of the Congo | Central Africa |
Mozambican Civil War | May 30, 1977 | October 15, 1992 | RENAMO PRM (merged with RENAMO in 1982) FUMO
Rhodesia
South Africa | Mozambique (People's Republic until 1990) ZANU
Zimbabwe
Tanzania
Malawi | Southern Africa |
1977 Seychelles coup d'état | June 4, 1977 | June 5, 1977 | SDP Government | SPUP Insurgents | East Africa |
Operation Fair Play | July 5, 1977 | July 5, 1977 | Pakistan Army | Government | South Asia |
Ogaden War | July 13, 1977 | March 15, 1978 | Somalia
WSLF
| Ethiopia
Cuba
Soviet Union
South Yemen
| Eastern Africa |
Egyptian–Libyan War | July 21, 1977 | July 24, 1977 | Egypt | Libya | North Africa |
Shaba II | May 11, 1978 | June 1978 | Zaire
France
Belgium
Morocco
United States | Front for the National Liberation of the Congo | Central Africa |
Korean Air Lines Flight 902 | April 20, 1978 | April 20, 1978 | South Korea | Soviet Union | Northern Europe |
Uganda-Tanzania War | October 9, 1978 | June 3, 1979 | Uganda | Tanzania | Eastern Africa |
Cambodian–Vietnamese War | December 21, 1978 | September 26, 1989 | Democratic Kampuchea
CGDK/NGC (1982–1990)
China
Thailand
| Vietnam FUNSK
People's Republic of Kampuchea
State of Cambodia | Southeast Asia |
Iranian Revolution | January 16, 1979 | February 1979 | Imperial State of Iran | Revolution Council
Interim Government | Southern Asia |
Sino-Vietnamese War | February 17, 1979 | March 16, 1979 | China | Vietnam Supported by:
Soviet Union | Southeast Asia |
Salvadoran Civil War | May 9, 1979 | January 16, 1992 | Salvadoran government
United States | FMLN (CRM) | Central America |
Soviet–Afghan War | December 24, 1979 | February 15, 1989 |  Sunni Mujahideen Supported by:
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
United States
United Kingdom
China
West Germany
Egypt
Israel
Shia Mujahideen Supported by:
Iran
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist rebels | Soviet Union
Afghanistan
East Germany | Central Asia |