Wars in the Early 20th Century (1900 to 1950) covers a period dominated by two wars that for the first time in history encompassed nearly every nation in the world, as well as numerous regional and local conflicts that nevertheless caused the death of millions of people.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Entries
• A
• Afghan Civil War, 1928–1929
• Albanian Uprising
• Albanian Uprisings
• Arab-Israeli War, 1948
• Arab Revolt (1936)
• Armenian Massacres, 1909
• Armenian Massacres, 1915
• Ashanti Uprising
• Asturian Uprising
• B
• Barcelona Radical Uprising
• Beer Hall Putsch
• black uprising in Cuba
• Boer Uprising
• Bolivian Revolt, 1946
• Bolshevik Revolution
• Brazilian Revolution
• British expedition to Tibet
• Burma Campaign
• Burmese civil war
• C
• Catalan Revolt, 1934
• causes of World War II
• Chaco War
• Chinese Civil War, 1927–1937
• Chinese Civil War, 1946–1949
• Chinese Revolution
• cold war
• Costa Rican Civil War
• Costa Rican Revolution
• Cretan Uprising, 1935
• Cuban revolt
• Cuban revolts, 1930–1933
• D
• D’Annunzio's War
• Druse Rebellion
• E
• Easter Rising
• Estonian War of Independence
• F
• February Revolution (Russia)
• Finnish War of Independence
• First Balkan War
• French conquest of Mauritania
• French Indochina War
• G
• Great Iraqi Revolution
• Greco-Turkish War, 1920–1922
• Greek Civil War
• H
• Haitian revolt, 1915
• Haitian revolt, 1918–1920
• Herero Uprising
• Honduran Civil War of 1909–1911
• Honduran-Nicaraguan War
• Hottentot Uprising
• Huk Rebellion
• Hungarian Civil War, 1921
• Hungarian Revolution, 1918
• I
• Indian Civil War
• Indo-Pakistani War, 1947–1948
• Indonesian War of Independence
• Irish War of Independence
• Italian uprisings
• Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935–1936
• Italo-Turkish War
• K
• Kornilov's Revolt
• Kronstadt Rebellion
• Kun's Red Terror
• Kurdistan insurrection
• L
• La Violencia
• Latvian War of Independence
• Lithuanian War of Independence
• M
• Macedonian Insurrection
• Madagascar Revolt
• Maji Maji Uprising
• Malay Jungle Wars
• March on Rome
• Memel Insurrection
• Mexican Civil War, 1911
• Mexican Civil War, 1920
• Mexican Insurrections
• Mexican Revolt
• Moro Wars
• Moroccan crises
• N
• Nicaraguan civil war, 1909–1912
• Nicaraguan civil war, 1925–1933
• P
• Panamanian Revolution
• Paraguayan Civil War
• Persian Revolution, 1906–1909
• Persian Revolution, 1921
• Peruvian Revolt, 1948
• “Pig” War
• R
• Raids of the Black Hundreds
• Rif rebellion
• Russian Civil War, 1918–1920
• Russian Revolution, 1905
• Russo-Finnish War
• Russo-Japanese War
• Russo-Persian War, 1911
• Russo-Polish War, 1919–1920
• S
• Sakdal Uprising
• Salvadoran revolt, 1932
• Salvadoran revolt, 1948
• Samil Independence Movement
• Sanusi Revolt
• Second Balkan War
• Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945
• Spanish Civil War
• Spartacus Revolt
• T
• Third Afghan War
• Turkish War of Independence
• U
• Uruguayan Revolution
• V
• Venezuelan Revolt, 1945
• Vietnamese Uprisings
• Villa's raids
• W
• Waziristan revolt
• World War I at sea
• World War I in Africa and Asia
• World War I in Mesopotamia
• World War I in the Balkans
• World War I on the Eastern Front
• World War I on the Italian Front
• World War I on the Turkish Fronts
• World War I on the Western Front
• World War II in Africa and the Mediterranean
• World War II in the China-Burma-India (CBI) theater
• World War II in the Greece and the Balkans
• World War II in the Pacific theater
• World War II on the Atlantic Front
• World War II on the Italian Front
• World War II on the Russian Front
• World War II on the Western Front
• World War II, outbreak and early German conquests
• Y
• Young Turks’ Revolt
• Support Materials
• Chronology
• Contributors and Reviewers
• Selected Bibliography