List of wars involving Guatemala

This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Guatemala.

List

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Guatemalan Invasions of Los Altos
(1838-1840)
Guatemala Los Altos Victory
Caste War of Yucatán
(1847–1933)
Mexico Mexico
Guatemala
Republic of Yucatán (1847–1848)
British Honduras (from 1897)

Chan Santa Cruz
Supported by:
 United Kingdom

1847–1883: Mayan victory

1884–1915: Mexican victory

  • Mexico recaptures the Yucatan Peninsula.
  • Minor clashes until 1933.
Los Altan Revolts
(1844, 1847-1849)
Guatemala Los Altos Victory
Battle of La Arada
(1851)

Guatemala

El Salvador
Honduras
Guatemalan Liberals

Guatemalan victory
Filibuster War
(1855–1857)
Central American alliance victory
War of 1863
(1863)
Guatemalan victory
Barrios' War of Reunification
(1885)
Anti-Barrios victory
Totoposte Wars
(1890-1906)
  • First Totoposte War
  • Guatemala
  • Salvadoran exiles




Status quo ante bellum
First Totoposte War
(1890)
  • First Totoposte War
  • Guatemala
  • Salvadoran exiles
Status quo ante bellum
Second Totoposte War
(1903)
Status quo ante bellum
Third Totoposte War
(1906)
Status quo ante bellum
World War I
(1918)
 France
 United Kingdom
 Russia
 United States
 Italy
 Japan
China
 Canada
 Australia
 New Zealand
 India
 South Africa
 Serbia
 Montenegro
 Romania
 Belgium
 Greece
 Portugal
 Brazil
 Cuba
 Panama
 Guatemala
 Nicaragua
 Costa Rica
 Honduras
 Germany
 Austria-Hungary
 Ottoman Empire
 Bulgaria
Victory
World War II
(1941–1945)
 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
Panama
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Nicaragua
Dominican Republic
Cuba
 Germany
 Japan
 Italy
 Hungary
 Romania
 Bulgaria
Croatia
Slovakia
 Finland
 Thailand
 Manchukuo
 Mengjiang
Victory
Mexico–Guatemala Conflict
(1958–1959)
Guatemala Mexico Ceasefire
  • Relations between the two nations were frozen for several months
Guatemalan Civil War
(1960–1996)
Government of Guatemala and Guatemalan military

Government-led paramilitary organizations

Supported by:
United States (1962–1996)[2]
Argentina (1976–1983)

URNG (from 1982) PGT (until 1998)
MR-13 (1960–1971)
FAR (1960–1971)
EGP (1971–1996)
ORPA (1979–1996) Supported by:
Cuba[7]
FMLN
Nicaragua (1979–1990)[7][8]

Peace accord signed in 1996

References

  1. ^ Castellanos, Pedro Zamora (1925). Vida militar de Centro America (in Spanish). Tipografia nacional.
  2. ^ Doyle, Kate; Osorio, Carlos (2013). "U.S. policy in Guatemala, 1966–1996". National Security Archive. National Security Archive Electronic. George Washington University. Archived from the original on 9 October 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  3. ^ Hunter, Jane (1987). Israeli foreign policy: South Africa and Central America. Vol. Part II: Israel and Central America. Guatemala. pp. 111–137.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin (1987). The Israeli Connection: Whom Israel Arms and why. Armenian Research Center collection. I.B.Tauris. p. 80. ISBN 978-1-85043-069-8.
  5. ^ Schirmer 1988, p. 172.
  6. ^ Peter Kornbluh (September 11, 2003). The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability. New York: The New Press. pp. 587. ISBN 1-56584-586-2. See The Pinochet File
  7. ^ a b Coll, Alberto R. (Summer 1985). "Soviet Arms and Central American Turmoil". World Affairs. 148 (1): 7–17. JSTOR 20672043.
  8. ^ Defense Intelligence Agency (September 1981). "Military Intelligence Summary, Volume VIII Latin America (U)" (PDF). National Security Archive Electronic. George Washington University: National Security Archive. p. 3. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 November 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2012.