Modern world history By Anika3 Period: 1839 to 1842 China: First Opium War 1842 China: Treaty of Nanjing Period: 1856 to 1860 China: Second Opium War Period: 1904 to 1905 Russo-Japanese War Period: 1914 to 1918 First World War 1919 China: May Fourth Movement Period: 1927 to 1950 China: Civil War Period: 1932 to 1935 Chaco War Period: 1932 to 1933 Colombia-Peru War Period: 1936 to 1939 Spanish Civil War Period: 1939 to 1945 Second World War Period: 1946 to 1949 Greek Civil War Period: 1946 to 1954 First Indochina War Period: 1948 to 1949 First Arab-Izraeli War 1950 Chinese invasion of Tibet Period: 1950 to 1953 Korean War 1952 European Coal and Steel Community Period: 1954 to 1962 Algerian War Period: 1954 to 1955 First Taiwan Strait Crisis Period: 1955 to 1975 Vietnam War 1956 Suez War 1957 Euroatom 1957 European (Economic) Community 1958 Second Taiwan Strait Crisis Period: 1959 to 2011 Basque conflict Period: 1960 to 1996 Guatemala Civil War Period: 1966 to 1976 China: Cultural revolution Period: 1967 to 1967 The Six Day War Period: 1968 to 1998 Northern Ireland Conflict 1971 Maoist rebellion in Sri Lanka Period: 1975 to 2002 Angolan Civil War Period: 1975 to 1990 Lebanese Civil War Period: 1976 to 2021 Aceh conflict Period: 1976 to 1983 The Dirty War (Argentina) Period: 1978 to 1979 Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1979 Iranian revolution Period: 1979 to 1992 Salvadoran Civil War Period: 1979 to 1998 Khmer Rouge insurgency Period: 1980 to 2021 Peru: The Shining Path Period: 1982 to 1982 The Falkland War Period: 1983 to 2009 Sri Lankan Civil War Period: 1987 to 2021 Uganda: Lord's Resistence Army Period: 1988 to 2021 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict 1989 China: Tiananmen protests Period: 1990 to 1991 Gulf War 1992 EU: Maastricht treaty Period: 1992 to 1997 Tajikistani Civil War Period: 1992 to 1995 Bosnian War Period: 1993 to 2005 Burundi Civil War 1994 Genocide in Rwanda Period: 1994 to 1996 First Chechen War Period: 1995 to 1995 The Cenepa War Period: 1995 to 1996 Third Taiwan Strait Crisis Period: 1996 to 1997 First Congo War Period: 1998 to 2003 Second Congo Civil War Period: 1998 to 2001 Islamic insurgency in Uzbekistan Period: 1998 to 1999 Kosovo War 1999 War of Dagestan Period: 1999 to 2009 Second Chechen War Period: 2001 to 2021 Afghanistan War Period: 2003 to 2011 Iraq War 2009 EU: Lisbon treaty Period: 2010 to 2012 Arab Spring Period: 2011 to 2021 Syrian civil War Period: 2012 to 2021 Central African Republic Civil War Period: 2012 to 2021 Mali War Period: 2013 to 2020 South Sudanese Civil War Period: 2014 to 2021 War in Yemen Period: 2014 to 2021 War in Donbas Period: 2014 to 2020 Second Libyan Civil War Period: 2014 to 2021 protests in Venezuela Period: 2014 to 2017 Iraqi Civil War Period: 2017 to 2020 Cameroon Civil War Period: 2020 to 2021 Tigray War