Simultaneously , a multi-side civil war was waged between the Yugoslav communist Partisans , the Serbian royalist Chetniks , the Croatian fascist Ustashe and Home Guard , Serbian Volunteer Corps and State Guard , as well as Slovene Home Guard troops .

The human cost Cost of the war was enormous .

The number of war victims Catastrophe is still in dispute Quarreling , but is generally agreed Agree_or_refuse_to_act to have been at least one million .

SS Division `` Prinz Eugen '' massacred Killing large numbers of civilians and prisoners of war .

Finally , during and after the final stages of the war , Yugoslav authorities and Partisan troops carried out reprisals , including the deportation of the Danube Swabian population , forced Causation marches and executions of thousands of captured soldiers and civilians ( predominantly Croats associated Collaboration with the NDH , but also Slovenes and others ) fleeing Escaping their advance ( the Bleiburg repatriations ) , atrocities against the Italian population in Istria ( the Foibe massacres ) and purges against Serbs , Hungarians and Germans associated Collaboration with the fascist forces .

The Thirty Years ' War was a war fought Hostile_encounter primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648 .

Initially a war between various Protestant and Catholic states in the fragmented Holy Roman Empire , it gradually developed Coming_to_be into a more general conflict Hostile_encounter involving most of the European great powers .

These states employed Employment relatively large mercenary armies , and the war became Becoming less about religion and more of a continuation of the France–Habsburg rivalry for European political pre-eminence .

The war was preceded Process_start by the election Choosing of the new Hapsburg Holy Roman Emperor , Ferdinand II , who tried to impose Action religious uniformity on his domains , forcing Hostile_encounter Roman Catholicism on its peoples .

After the so-called Defenestration of Prague deposed Change_of_leadership the Emperor 's representatives in Prague , the Protestant estates Besieging and Catholic Habsburgs started Process_start gathering Come_together allies for war .

Sweden , at the time a rising military power , soon intervened Hindering in 1630 under its king Gustavus Adolphus , transforming Change what had been simply the Emperor 's attempt to curb Hindering the Protestant states into a full-scale war in Europe .

The war also bankrupted most of the combatant powers .

the thirty years ' war ended Process_end with the treaty Ratification of UNK and the treaties of UNK , part of the wider peace of westphalia .

The war altered Change the previous political order of European powers .

The rise Motion_directional of Bourbon France , the curtailing of Habsburg ambition , and the ascendancy of Sweden as a great power created Creating a new balance of power on the continent , with France emerging Coming_to_be from the war strengthened Cause_change_of_strength and increasingly dominant in the latter part of the 17th century .

The confrontation was an undeclared war Hostile_encounter with most of the action occurring Coming_to_be in the border area between Indonesia and East Malaysia on the island of Borneo ( known as Kalimantan in Indonesia ) .

punjab , north-west frontier province , and kashmir were annexed Forming_relationships after the second anglo-sikh war in 1849 ; however , kashmir was immediately sold Commerce_sell under the 1846 treaty of amritsar to the dogra dynasty of jammu and thereby became Becoming a princely state .

Events leading Bringing up the near war Military_operation .

Because there were no other feasible defensive Defending locations north of Tawang , the government had more or less decided Deciding that in the event of a new war Military_operation , they would abandon GiveUp the town and prepare GetReady for battle Hostile_encounter at the Se La pass to its east .

upon returning Arriving to albania after securing ferdinand , the venetians became Becoming hostile to skanderbeg and a sort of undeclared war took place Process_start .

As Royalists and Parliamentarians prepared GetReady for war , Parliament had access Having_or_lacking_access to more military material , due Causation to its possession of all major cities including the large arsenal in London .

The Royalists ' unsuccessful siege Besieging of the city was a major step on the road to full-scale war which would start Process_start in earnest with the pitched battle Hostile_encounter of Edgehill on 23 October 1642 .

Hamas did not participate Participation in the fighting Hostile_encounter directly , and insisted that all-out war Hostile_encounter would `` be devastating Destroying to the Palestinian people . ''

the results included Cause_to_be_included embarrassing the british government ; replacing Change_of_leadership cecil rhodes as premier of the cape colony ; strengthening Cause_change_of_strength afrikaner dominance of the transvaal and its gold mines ; helping start Process_start the anglo-boer war ( unk ) ; and ultimately it was a factor in imposing apartheid Hindering in the union of south africa .

Following the Soviet advance Cause_to_make_progress to the Dnieper in the Battle of the Dnieper during late 1943 , German forces managed Control to hold to the Nikopol bridgehead on the left bank of the Dnieper , the area of manganese ore mines of crucial importance to German war production that Adolf Hitler insisted on holding Defending .

although tensions between the government and tamil militant groups had been brewing since the 1970s , full-scale war did not break out Process_start until an attack Attack by the ltte on a sri lanka army patrol in jaffna , in the north of the country , on july 23 , 1983 , which killed Killing 13 soldiers .

The Iran–Israel proxy conflict , or Iran–Israel proxy war and Iran–Israel Cold War , is the ongoing proxy war between Iran and Israel .

The Iran–Israel proxy conflict , or Iran–Israel proxy war and Iran–Israel Cold War , is the ongoing proxy war between Iran and Israel .

The invasion Attack of Poland ( September campaign , , 1939 defensive war , , Poland campaign , ) , marked Recording the beginning of World War II .

Those two countries had pacts with Poland and had declared Expressing_publicly war on Germany on 3 September , in the end Process_end their aid Assistance to Poland was very limited Limiting , however France invaded Attack a small part of Germany in the Saar Offensive .

Martić was tried Self_motion at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) on several different charges of war crimes including , his involvement Participation in the siege of Kijevo .

Croatian authorities tried Mladić `` in absentia '' and convicted Legal_rulings him for war crimes committed Commitment in Kijevo .

Warsaw , the capital of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth , was completely destroyed Destroying by the Swedes , and out of a pre-war population of 20,000 , only 2,000 remained in the city after the war Hostile_encounter .

This war Hostile_encounter broke out Process_start in 1585 and was fought Hostile_encounter not only in the European theatre but in Spain 's American colonies .

Unrest and civil war likewise saw Self_motion large numbers of Congolese people emigrate Removing to South Africa , many illegally , in 1993 and 1997 .

The Mexican drug trafficking Committing_crime organizations have been fighting Hostile_encounter for the territorial control Control of the smuggling routes to the United States , and this massacre Killing may be the `` latest blow in an escalating war of intimidation among drug gangs . ''

After being held Arrest about three weeks as a prisoner of war , Santa Anna signed Sign_agreement the peace treaty that dictated that the Mexican army leave Departing the region , paving the way for the Republic of Texas to become Becoming an independent country .

Sam Houston became Becoming a national celebrity , and the Texans ' rallying cries Vocalizations from events of the war , `` Remember the Alamo ! ''

The Quasi-War ( ) was an undeclared war fought Hostile_encounter almost entirely at sea between the United States and France from 1798 to 1800 , which broke out Process_start during the beginning Process_start of John Adams 's presidency .

france was also outraged Judgment_communication over the jay treaty and that the united states was actively trading Exchange with britain , with whom they were at war .

The war was called Statement `` quasi '' because it was undeclared .

after the end of the unk , unk , greco-turkish fronts ( often referred Adducing to as the eastern front , the southern front , and the western front of the war , respectively ) , the treaty of UNK was abandoned GiveUp and the treaties of kars ( october 1921 ) and lausanne ( july 1923 ) were signed Sign_agreement .

However , dismantling Destroying the Ottoman government and partitioning the Ottoman Empire among the Allied nations had been an objective of the Entente since the start of the war .

All but were later raised Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale , and six were returned Arriving to service and went on to fight Hostile_encounter in the war .

Japan announced Expressing_publicly a declaration Expressing_publicly of war on the United States later that day ( December 8 in Tokyo ) , but the declaration was not delivered Sending until the following day .

The following day , December 8 , Congress declared Expressing_publicly war on Japan .

On December 11 , Germany and Italy each declared Expressing_publicly war on the U.S. , which responded Response with a declaration Expressing_publicly of war against Germany and Italy .

On December 11 , Germany and Italy each declared Expressing_publicly war on the U.S. , which responded Response with a declaration Expressing_publicly of war against Germany and Italy .

Because the attack Attack happened without a declaration Expressing_publicly of war and without explicit warning Warning , the attack Attack on Pearl Harbor was later judged Legal_rulings in the Tokyo Trials to be a war crime .

Because the attack Attack happened without a declaration Expressing_publicly of war and without explicit warning Warning , the attack Attack on Pearl Harbor was later judged Legal_rulings in the Tokyo Trials to be a war crime .