Wars Wars The Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation was an intermittent war over the future of the island of Borneo, between British-backed Malaysia and Indonesia in 1962- 1966. It is called Konfrontasi in the Indonesian and Malay languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation"
The prohibition of drugs through legislation or religious law is a common means of controlling the perceived negative consequences of recreational drug use at a society- or world-wide level. Present-day attempts to enforce drug prohibition in the U.S. are frequently considered to be part of the ongoing War on Drugs instituted by President Richard Nixon in 1971. ...more on Wikipedia about "Prohibition (drugs)"
(Serbo-Bulgarian War) This conflict was used as a backdrop in George Bernard Shaw's play Arms and the Man ...more on Wikipedia about "Serbo-Bulgarian War"
(Slovak-Hungarian War) In 1938, Slovak leaders succeeded in gaining autonomy for Slovakia. This came about after the dictator of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, had annexed Czechoslovakia's western border regions, which were largely inhabited by ethnic Germans. Jozef Tiso, a Roman Catholic priest turned politician, became prime minister of the Slovak state. The part of Ruthenia with an ethnic Hungarian population was transferred to Hungary which infuriated Hungary who believed that Ruthenia was a possesion. ...more on Wikipedia about "Slovak-Hungarian War"
See Cyprus Reunification Negotiations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Turkish Invasion of Cyprus"
The War of Transnistria involved armed clashes on a limited scale that broke out between the Transnistrian separatists and the Moldovan police as early as November 1990 at Dubasari. ...more on Wikipedia about "War of Transnistria"
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