Start
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Finish
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Name of conflict
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Belligerents
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Outcome
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Combatant 1
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Combatant 2
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1885
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1895
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Italo-Ethiopian War of 1887–1889[2]
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Italy
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Ethiopia
Mahdist Sudan
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Italian Victory, establishment of Italian Eritrea.
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1889
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1920
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Pacification of Somalia[3]
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Italy
|
Various rebels Dervish State
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Italian Victory, consolidation of Italian Somaliland.
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1890
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1894
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Mahdist War
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Italy
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Mahdist Sudan
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Italian Victory All Sudanese invasions repulsed Italians take Kassala
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1895
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1896
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First Italo-Ethiopian War
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Italy
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Ethiopia
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Ethiopian Victory
- Ethiopia recognised as independent country by Italy.
- Italy abrogates the Treaty of Wuchale with the establishment of a corridor between Eritrea and Italian Somaliland
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1896
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1925
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Bīmāl revolt
|
Italy
|
Bimaal Rebels
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Italian Victory
- Suppression of the Bimaal revolt
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1897
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1897
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Greco-Turkish War (1897)
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Greece
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Ottoman Empire
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Turkish Victory
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1897
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1898
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Cretan Revolt (1897–1898) (International Squadron (Cretan intervention, 1897–1898))
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Cretan revolutionaries Kingdom of Greece
British Empire
France
Italy
Russian Empire
Austria-Hungary (until April 12, 1898)
German Empire (until March 16th, 1898)
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Ottoman Empire
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Italian Victory
- Establishment of the Cretan State.
- Withdraw of Ottoman forces from Crete.
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1899
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1901
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Boxer Rebellion
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United Kingdom
Japan
Russia
France
United States
Germany
Italy
Austria-Hungary
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Righteous Harmony Society
Manchu-China
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Italian Allied Victory, Boxer Protocol:
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1900
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1920
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Somaliland Campaign
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Italy
United Kingdom
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Dervish movement
Ethiopian Empire
|
Italian-British Victory
- Collapse of the Dervish state
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1902
|
1903
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Venezuelan naval blockade
|
United Kingdom
Germany
Italy
|
Venezuela
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Inconclusive/Other Outcome
- Venezuelan debt dispute resolved
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1911
|
1912
|
Italo-Turkish War
|
Italy
|
Ottoman Empire
|
Italian Victory:
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1911
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1917
|
Italo-Senussi War
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Italy
|
Senussi Order
Ottoman Empire
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Italian Victory:
- Extension of Italian control in Tripolitania and Cyrenaica
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1912
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1913
|
First Balkan War
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Balkan League:
Bulgaria
Serbia
Greece
Montenegro
Italian volunteers
Russia
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Ottoman Empire
Austria-Hungary
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Balkan League Victory:
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1914
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1918
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World War I
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Allied Powers
France
British Empire
Russia
United States
Italy
Japan
China
Serbia
Montenegro
Romania
Belgium
Greece
Portugal
Brazil
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Central Powers
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire
Bulgaria
|
Italian Allied Victory:
Russia pulls out in 1917
- Russian Civil War
- Creation of the Soviet Union
Creation of League of Nations
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1918
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1920
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Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War
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White Movement
British Empire
United States
France
Italy
Japan
Czechoslovakia
Greece
Estonia
Serbia
Poland
Romania
China
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Russian SFSR
Far Eastern Republic
Latvian SSR
Ukrainian SSR
Commune of Estonia
Mongolian Communists
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Bolshevik Victory:
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1918
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1923
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Occupation of Constantinople
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United Kingdom
France
Italy
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Ottoman Empire
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Temporary occupation
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1919
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1923
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Turkish War of Independence
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Ottoman Empire
Soviet Russia
Italy[8]
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United Kingdom
France
Greece
Armenia
Georgia
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Italian Allied Victory
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1920
|
1920
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Vlora War
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Italy
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Principality of Albania
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Compromise agreement
- Italy voluntarily abandons Vlora, but annexes the island of Saseno.
- Italy abandons plans to establish a mandate over Albania, but retains diplomatic protection over the country to guarantee its special interests.
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1920
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1920
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Bloody Christmas
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Italy
|
Italian Regency of Carnaro
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Italian Victory:
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1921
|
1921
|
Anti-fascist uprising in Albona
|
Italy
|
Labin Republic
|
Italian Victory:
- Fall of the Labin Republic
- Italian re-annexation of Labin
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1923
|
1932
|
Pacification of Libya
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Italy
|
Senussi Order
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Italian Victory:
- Stabilization of Italian rule in Libya.
- Ethnic cleansing of the Cyrenaican indigenous population.
- Mass deaths of Cyrenaican indigenous civilians.
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1924
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1927
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Pacification of Italian Somaliland
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Italy
|
Somali rebels
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Italian Victory:
- All-out defeat of Somali rebels
- The independent Majeerteen Sultanate is brutally suppressed in 1927, finalizing the Italian occupation of Somalia.
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1924
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1940
|
Italian conquest of the Horn of Africa
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Italy
|
Sultanate of Hobyo
Majeerteen Sultanate
Ethiopian Empire
Britain
|
Italian Victory:
- Italian conquest of the Horn of Africa.
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1935
|
1937
|
Second Italo-Abyssinian War
|
Italy
|
Ethiopian Empire
|
Italian Victory:
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1936
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1939
|
Spanish Civil War
|
Nationalist
Italy
Germany
Portugal
Foreign volunteers
|
Republican
Foreign volunteers
Soviet Union (1936–1938)
Mexico
|
Italian Allied Victory
|
1939
|
1939
|
Invasion of Albania
|
Italy
|
Albania
|
Italian Victory, Italian occupation of Albania.
|
1939
|
1945
|
World War II
|
Axis Powers
Germany
Japan
Italy (until 1943)
Italian Social Republic (from 23 Sep. 1943)
Hungary
Romania (until 1944)
Bulgaria (until 1944)
Serbia (until 1944)
Slovakia
Croatia
Finland (until 1944)
Vichy France
Thailand
Manchukuo
Mengjiang
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Allied Powers
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
Ethiopia
Italy (from 1943)
Romania (from 1944)
Bulgaria (from 1944)
Finland (from 1944)
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'United Nations' Allied victory:
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