Major Asian Wars in WWI & WWII
Major wars
During the World Wars, Asia was reshaped by global conflicts and regional struggles. Key campaigns like Tsingtao and Gallipoli altered Middle Eastern and East Asian dynamics. The Asian theater expanded into the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War, dismantling traditional imperial control.
Timeline
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| Element |
Year
Age
| 1877 |
Russo-Turkish War (Period: April 1877 – March 1878)
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| 1894 |
First Sino-Japanese War (Period: 1894–1895)
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| 1898 |
Conflict with Armed Bands in Macedonia (Period: 1898–1908 approximately)
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| 1903 |
Fighting against Armed Bands in Macedonia (Period: Around 1903–1908)
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| 1904 |
Russo-Japanese War (Period: 1904–1905)
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| 1907 |
Jeongmi Righteous Army Struggle (Period: Around 1907–1910)
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| 1908 |
Young Turk Revolution (Period: June – July 1908)
Armed Uprising Accompanying the Young Turk Revolution (Period: June – July 1908)
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| 1910 |
Yemen Rebellion (Period: 1910–1913)
Hauran Druze Revolt against the Ottoman Empire (Period: 1910)
Anti-Japanese Armed Struggle in the Korean Independence Movement (Period: Late 1910s–1930)
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| 1911 |
Italo-Turkish War (Period: September 29, 1911 – October 18, 1912)
Xinhai Revolution (Period: 1911–1912)
Italo-Turkish War (Period: September 1911 – October 1912)
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| 1912 |
First Balkan War (Period: October 1912 – May 1913)
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| 1913 |
Second Revolution (Period: 1913)
Second Balkan War (Period: June – August 1913)
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| 1914 |
World War I (Period: 1914–1918)
Caucasus Campaign (Period: November 1914 – end of 1918)
Sarikamish Operation (Period: December 22, 1914 – January 17, 1915 approximately)
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| 1915 |
Sinai and Palestine Campaign (Period: 1915–1918)
Gallipoli Campaign (Period: April 25, 1915 – January 9, 1916)
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| 1916 |
Basmachi Movement (Period: 1916 – 1930s (Enver's participation 1921–1922))
World War I and the Arab Revolt (Period: 1916–1918)
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| 1917 |
Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War (Period: 1917–1923)
Constitutional Protection War (Period: 1917–1922)
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| 1918 |
Post-World War I Middle East Reorganization and Mandate System (Period: 1918–1932)
Siberian Intervention (Period: 1918–1922)
Franco-Turkish War (Period: December 1918 – October 1921)
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| 1919 |
Resistance Movement Against French Mandate in Syria (Period: c. 1919–1920)
Hananu Revolt (Period: Autumn 1919–1921 (Main battles 1920–1921))
Anti-Japanese War of Independence (Period: 1919–early 1920s)
Turkish War of Independence (Period: May 1919 – October 1922)
Greco-Turkish War (Period: May 1919 – October 1922)
Turkish-Greek War (Period: May 1919 – September 1922)
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| 1920 |
Armed Conflicts Between Arabs and Jews in Palestine (Period: 1920–1939)
French-Syrian War (Period: 1920)
Armenian-Turkish War (Period: September – December 1920)
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| 1921 |
Russian Civil War and Central Asian Anti-Bolshevik Struggle (Period: 1921–1922 (the Basmachi movement itself continued from around 1916 to the 1930s))
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| 1925 |
Great Syrian Revolt (Period: 1925–1927)
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| 1926 |
Northern Expedition (Period: 1926–1928)
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| 1927 |
Revolutionary struggles during the Chinese Civil War and the First Chinese Civil War (Period: 1927 onwards)
First Chinese Civil War (Period: 1927–1936 (general categorization))
Chinese Civil War between the Chinese Nationalist Party and the Chinese Communist Party (Period: Around 1927)
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| 1930 |
Anti-Japanese War (Period: 1930s–early 1940s)
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| 1931 |
Manchurian Incident (Period: September 1931–1933)
Anti-Japanese Armed Struggle in Manchuria (Period: 1931 onward, mainly 1930s)
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| 1934 |
Long March (Period: 1934–1936)
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| 1936 |
Arab Revolt in Palestine (Period: 1936–1939)
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| 1937 |
Second Sino-Japanese War (Period: 1937–1945)
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| 1939 |
World War II (Period: 1939–1945)
World War II - Middle East Theatre (Period: 1939–1945)
Nomonhan Incident (Period: May–September 1939)
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| 1941 |
Anglo-Iraqi War (Period: April–May 1941)
Pacific War (Period: December 1941–August 1945)
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| 1946 |
Second Chinese Civil War (Period: 1946–1949)
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| 1947 |
1948 Palestine War (Period: 1947–1949)
1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine (Period: November 1947–May 1948)
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| 1948 |
First Arab-Israeli War (Period: 1948–1949)
1948 Arab-Israeli War (Period: 1948–1949)
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| 1949 |
Arab-Israeli Conflict and Retaliatory Operations (Period: 1949–1956)
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| 1950 |
Korean War (Period: 1950–1953)
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| 1956 |
Suez Crisis (Second Arab-Israeli War, Period: October–November 1956)
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| 1967 |
War of Attrition (Period: 1967–1970)
Third Arab-Israeli War (Period: June 5–10, 1967)
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| 1973 |
Yom Kippur War (Fourth Arab-Israeli War, Period: October 6–October 25, 1973)
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Map
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| Element |
Asia
World
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