List of wars involving Guatemala

This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Guatemala .

List

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Guatemalan Invasions of Los Altos (1838-1840)	Guatemala	Los Altos	Victory Los Altos is re-annexed to Guatemala [1]
Caste War of Yucatán (1847–1933)	Mexico Guatemala Republic of Yucatán (1847–1848) British Honduras (from 1897)	Chan Santa Cruz Supported by:   United Kingdom British Honduras (until 1897) Maya people	1847–1883:Mayan victory State of Chan Santa Cruz established. 1884–1915:Mexican victory Mexico recaptures the Yucatan Peninsula. Minor clashes until 1933.
Los Altan Revolts (1844, 1847-1849)	Guatemala	Los Altos	Victory Revolts suppressed Death of Agustín Guzmán
Battle of La Arada (1851)	Guatemala	El Salvador Honduras Guatemalan Liberals	Guatemalan victory
Filibuster War (1855–1857)	Allied Central American Army Nicaragua Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Legitimist Party	Filibusters Walker's Nicaragua Democratic Party	Central American alliance victory
War of 1863 (1863)	Guatemala Salvadoran exiles Supported by: Costa Rica Nicaragua	El Salvador Honduras	Guatemalan victory Overthrow of Gerardo Barrios
Barrios' War of Reunification (1885)	Guatemala Honduras	El Salvador Mexico Costa Rica Nicaragua	Anti-Barrios victory Failure to reunify Central America Death of Justo Rufino Barrios
Totoposte Wars (1890-1906)	First Totoposte War Guatemala Salvadoran exiles Second Totoposte War Guatemala Third Totoposte War Guatemala	First Totoposte War El Salvador Second Totoposte War El Salvador Mexico Guatemalan exiles Third Totoposte War El Salvador Mexico Guatemalan exiles	Status quo ante bellum
First Totoposte War (1890)	First Totoposte War Guatemala Salvadoran exiles	First Totoposte War El Salvador	Status quo ante bellum
Second Totoposte War (1903)	Second Totoposte War Guatemala	Second Totoposte War El Salvador Mexico Guatemalan exiles	Status quo ante bellum
Third Totoposte War (1906)	Third Totoposte War Guatemala	Third Totoposte War El Salvador Mexico Guatemalan exiles	Status quo ante bellum
World War I (1918)	France  United Kingdom  Russia  United States   Italy   Japan China  Canada  Australia  New Zealand   India   South Africa   Serbia   Montenegro   Romania   Belgium   Greece   Portugal   Brazil   Cuba   Panama   Guatemala   Nicaragua   Costa Rica   Honduras	Germany   Austria-Hungary   Ottoman Empire   Bulgaria	Victory End of the German, Russian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires Formation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East Transfer of German colonies and regions of the former Ottoman Empire to other powers Establishment of the League of Nations
World War II (1941–1945)	United States Soviet Union  United Kingdom China  France Poland  Canada  Australia  New Zealand   India   South Africa   Yugoslavia   Greece Denmark Norway  Netherlands  Belgium Luxembourg   Czechoslovakia Brazil Mexico Panama Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Dominican Republic Cuba	Germany   Japan   Italy   Hungary   Romania   Bulgaria Croatia Slovakia   Finland   Thailand   Manchukuo   Mengjiang	Victory Collapse of the Third Reich Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires Creation of the United Nations Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers Beginning of the Cold War
Mexico–Guatemala Conflict (1958–1959)	Guatemala	Mexico	Ceasefire Relations between the two nations were frozen for several months
Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996)	Government of Guatemala and Guatemalan military Government-led paramilitary organizations Mano Blanca Supported by: United States (1962–1996) [2] Argentina (1976–1983) Logistics: Israel [3] [4] Taiwan [5] Chile [6] South Africa	URNG (from 1982) PGT (until 1998) MR-13 (1960–1971) FAR (1960–1971) EGP (1971–1996) ORPA (1979–1996) Supported by: Cuba [7] FMLN Nicaragua (1979–1990) [7] [8]	Peace accord signed in 1996 Guatemala border Franja Transversal del Norte

References

1. Castellanos, Pedro Zamora (1925). Vida militar de Centro America (in Spanish). Tipografia nacional.
2. Doyle, Kate; Osorio, Carlos (2013). "U.S. policy in Guatemala, 1966–1996". National Security Archive . National Security Archive Electronic. George Washington University. Archived from the original on 9 October 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
3. Hunter, Jane (1987). Israeli foreign policy: South Africa and Central America. Vol. Part II: Israel and Central America. Guatemala. pp. 111–137.
4. Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin (1987). The Israeli Connection: Whom Israel Arms and why. Armenian Research Center collection. I.B.Tauris. p. 80. ISBN   978-1-85043-069-8.
5. Schirmer, Jennifer (1988). The Guatemalan Military Project: A Violence Called Democracy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 172. ISBN   978-0-8122-3325-4.
6. Peter Kornbluh (September 11, 2003). The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability. New York: The New Press. pp.  587. ISBN   1-56584-586-2. See The Pinochet File
7. Coll, Alberto R. (Summer 1985). "Soviet Arms and Central American Turmoil". World Affairs. 148 (1): 7–17. JSTOR   20672043.
8. Defense Intelligence Agency (September 1981). "Military Intelligence Summary, Volume VIII Latin America (U)" (PDF). National Security Archive Electronic. George Washington University: National Security Archive. p. 3. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 November 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2012.