Location:Champa

The Sukhothai Kingdom at its greatest extent during the late 13th century under the reign of King Ram Khamhaeng

Trần dynasty

Location: Northern Ayutthaya, Southern Lan Na^[3]

War elephants depicted from a later Siam–Burma war.

Location: Upper Tenessarim coast, western and central Siam

Painting by Prince Narisara Nuvadtivongs, depicting Queen Suriyothai (center) on her elephant putting herself between King Maha Chakkraphat (right) and the Viceroy of Prome (left).

• The Burmese command decided to withdraw
• Burma claims to regain Upper Tenasserim down to Tavoy (Dawei)

Location: Ayutthaya, Phitsanulok, Sukhothai

• Ayutthaya becomes a Burmese vassal state

Location: Ayutthaya, Phitsanulok, Kamphaeng Phet and Lan Xang

• Ayutthaya remains a Burmese vassal state

Location: Ayutthaya Kingdom and lower Tanintharyi Region

Elephant duel between Naresuan and Mingyi Swa during the Battle of Nong Sarai as wall murals in Phra Ubosot, Wat Suwan Dararam, Ayutthaya, Thailand.

• Siam regains independence
• Siam regains the lower Tanintharyi Region as far as Dawei

Location: Cambodia

• Siamese sack of Longvek (3 Jan 1594)

Location: Southern and central Burma

King Naresuan entered Pegu, mural painting by Phraya Anusatchitrakon, Wat Suwandararam, Ayutthaya.

• Siamese controlled the entire Tenasserim coast
• Lan Na becomes Siamese vassal from 1602 to 1614

Location: upper Tenasserim coast and Lan Na

• Burma regains upper Tenasserim coast to Tavoy
• Burma regains Lan Na

(1624–1636)^[6][7][8]

 

Dutch East India Company

• Crown of Castile
  • Spanish East Indies
• Council of Portugal
  • Macau
  • Goa
  • Malacca

• Dutch hegemony on Southeast Asia.

Location: Northern Siam and Tenasserim coast

• Burma defends upper Burma
• Status quo ante bellum

Location: Tenasserim coast

• Burma defends upper Tenasserim coast
• Siam defeats counter Burmese invasion

Location: Mergui and Coromandel coast

• East India Company fails to blockade the port of Mergui
• The ports of Siam were closed to East India Company vessels until 1708
• The East India had resumed trade using foreign-flagged vessels as early as 1705

Location: Bangkok, Thailand

Siege of the French fortress in Bangkok by the Siamese revolutionary forces of Phetracha in 1688.

• French negotiated retreat

Location: Ayutthaya Kingdom

• Siam defeats Burmese invasion

Location: Cambodia

• Siam gains suzerainty of Cambodia
• Vietnam annexes several border provinces of Cambodia

Location: Tenasserim, Siam

Siege of the French fortress in Bangkok by the Siamese revolutionary forces of Phetracha in 1688.

• Burma captures the Tennasserim coast down to Tavoy–Mergui frontier

Location: Tenasserim coast, Gulf of Siam coast, Suphanburi, Ayutthaya

• End of Ayutthaya Kingdom

Location: Siam

• Thonburi reunification of Siam following the fall of the Ayutthaya Kingdom in 1767

Location: Cambodia, Southern Vietnam

Map of Indochina in 1760

Location: Northern and central Siam, Lan Na

• The Burmese loss of southern Lan Na later proved to be the end of their 200 years rule.
• Siam gains control of Chiang Mai, Lampang, Lamphun

Location: Khorat Plateau

• Lao kingdoms of Luang Phrabang, Vientiane and Champasak came under Siamese suzerainty.

Location: Rạch Gầm River and Xoài Mút River, Southern Vietnam

Location: Western Siam

• Siam gains control of Chiang Mai and Lanna

Location:Tenasserim Coast

Location:Tenasserim Coast

Location: Lanna Kingdom, Northern Thailand

Location: Lanna Kingdom, Northern Thailand

• Siam gains control of Chiang Saen

Location: Phuket

• Siam successfully defends Phuket from a Burmese invasion
• Tenasserim Coast is depopulated

Location: Cambodia, Southern Vietnam

Vietnamese forces restore Ang Chan to the Cambodian throne

Location: Kedah

• Exile of Ahmad Tajuddin Halim Shah II^[15]
• Imposition of direct Siamese rule on Kedah
• Start of the Kedahan resistance^[16]

Location: Burma, East Bengal, Manipur

The storming of one of the principal stockades, near Yangon (Rangoon), 8 July 1824

• East India Company
• Supported by:
  Rattanakosin Kingdom^[17][18]

• Treaty of Yandabo
• Beginning of British rule in Burma
• Burma cedes Manipur and Tenasserim to Britain

Location: Central Laos

Location: Cambodia, Southern Vietnam

• Cambodia becomes a vassal state of Vietnam

Location: Cambodia, Cochinchina

Siamese intervention
Cambodia independence from Vietnam
Cambodia came under joint Siamese-Vietnamese suzerainty

Location: Cambodia, Southern Vietnam

A map showing the movement of Vietnamese troops (from June to December 1845) in Vietnam-Siamese War (1841–1845).

• Cambodia came under joint Siamese-Vietnamese suzerainty

Location: Kengtung, Trans-Salween region

Location: Eastern Cambodia,

A Siamese army during Haw wars in 1865

• Luang Phrabang

Location: French Indochina, Siam

French ships Inconstant and Comète under fire in the Paknam incident, 13 July 1893

• French Indochina

• Land on east bank of the Mekong ceded to French Indochina

Location: Phrae

Location: Europe

(Clockwise from the top)

• The aftermath of shelling during the Battle of the Somme
• Mark V tanks cross the Hindenburg Line
• HMS Irresistible sinks after hitting a mine in the Dardanelles
• A British Vickers machine gun crew wears gas masks during the Battle of the Somme
• Albatros D.III fighters of Jagdstaffel 11

• Central Powers victory on the Eastern Front nullified by defeat on the Western Front
• Fall of all continental empires in Europe (including Germany, Russia, Turkey and Austria-Hungary)
• Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War – the collapse of the Russian Empire and the subsequent formation of the Soviet Union
• Widespread unrest and revolutions throughout Europe and Asia
• Creation of the League of Nations (more ...)

Location: French Indochina

French Indochina

 

•  French Indochina

• Japanese-mediated armistice^[20]
• Siem Reap, Phra Tabong, Sisophon ceded to Thailand

Location:Thailand

Map of the Japanese invasion of Thailand, December 8, 1941

• Thai alliance with Japan
• Thailand declares war on the Allied Powers.

Location: Southeast Asia

(clockwise from top left)

• Collapse of Nazi Germany
• Fall of the Japanese and Italian Empires
• Allied occupations of Germany and Japan and foundation of the Italian Republic
• Beginning of the Nuclear Age
• Dissolution of the League of Nations and creation of the United Nations
• Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as rival superpowers and beginning of the Cold War (more ...)

Location: Malay Peninsula, Southeast Asia

Australian Avro Lincoln bomber dropping 500lb bombs on communist rebels in the Malayan jungle (c. 1950)

 

• Federation of Malaya
•  Southern Rhodesia
  (until 1953)
•  Rhodesia and Nyasaland
  (after 1953)
• Fiji

Australia
New Zealand
Supported by:
 Thailand
(Thai–Malaysian border)

Malayan Communist Party

• Malayan National Liberation Army

Supported by:
China^[21][22][23]
Viet Minh
(until 1954)
 North Vietnam
(from 1954)^[24][25][26]
 Soviet Union^[23][27]
 Indonesia^[22][23]

• Independence of Malaya on 31 August 1957

Location: Korean Peninsula, Yellow Sea, Sea of Japan, Korea Strait, China–North Korea border

Clockwise from top: A column of the U.S. 1st Marine Division's infantry and armor moves through Chinese lines during their breakout from the Chosin Reservoir • UN landing at Incheon harbor, starting point of the Battle of Incheon • Korean refugees in front of a U.S. M46 Patton tank • U.S. Marines, led by First Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez, landing at Incheon • F-86 Sabre fighter aircraft

 South Korea

United Nations^{[lower-alpha 2]}

•  United States
•  United Kingdom
•  Canada
•  Turkey
•  Australia
•  Philippines
•  New Zealand
•  Thailand
•  Ethiopia
•  Greece
•  France
•  Colombia
•  Belgium
•  South Africa
•  Netherlands
•  Luxembourg

• North Korean invasion of South Korea repelled
• Subsequent U.S.-led United Nations invasion of North Korea repelled
• Subsequent Chinese invasion of South Korea repelled
• Korean Armistice Agreement signed in 1953
• Korean conflict ongoing
• Korean Demilitarized Zone established
• North Korea gains city of Kaesong but loses a net total of 3,900 km² (1,500 sq mi) to South Korea.^[37]

Location: South Vietnam, North Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, South China Sea, Gulf of Thailand

Clockwise, from top left: U.S. combat operations in Ia Đrăng, ARVN Rangers defending Saigon during the 1968 Tết Offensive, two A-4C Skyhawks after the Gulf of Tonkin incident, ARVN recapture Quảng Trị during the 1972 Easter Offensive, civilians fleeing the 1972 Battle of Quảng Trị, and burial of 300 victims of the 1968 Huế Massacre.

• Withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam
• Communist forces take power in South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
• Reunification of Vietnam
• Start of the Cambodian–Vietnamese War
• Start of the boat people crisis and Indochina refugee crisis
• Reunification of North and South Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Location: Kingdom of Laos

Laos

• Establishment of the Lao People's Democratic Republic
• Exile of the Kingdom of Laos.

Location: Thailand (primarily East Thailand)

Ta Ko Bi Cave, a former hideout used by communist rebels.

 

• Royal Thai Armed Forces
• Royal Thai Police
• Volunteer Defense Corps

Supported by:

 Taiwan (until July 1981)

• Kuomintang 49th Division

 United States

Pathet Lao

Supported By:

Khmer Rouge (until 1982)
 Vietnam
 China (from 1979)
 Soviet Union

• Amnesty declared on 23 April 1980 by the Thai government
• Order 66/2523 signed by Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda
• Communist insurgency declines and ends in 1984

Location: Cambodia

US tanks entering a town in Cambodia in 1970.

GRUNK (1970–1975)

• FUNK
• Khmer Rouge (1968–1975)
• Khmer Rumdo

 North Vietnam
Việt Cộng

• Fall of the Kingdom of Cambodia
• Creation, then collapse, of the Khmer Republic
• Establishment of Democratic Kampuchea
• Beginning of the Cambodian genocide

Location: Malaysian Peninsular and Sarawak

Sarawak Rangers (present-day part of the Malaysian Rangers) consisting of Ibans leap from a Royal Australian Air Force Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter to guard the Malay–Thai border from potential Communist attacks in 1965, two years before the war starting in 1968.

 

 

Supported by:
 United Kingdom^[46]
 Australia
 New Zealand^[47]
 United States
 South Vietnam (until 1975)

Malayan Communist Party^[48]

• Malayan National Liberation Army^[48]

Communist Party of Thailand (until 1983)
Supported by:
 China^[49][21]
 Soviet Union^[49]
 Vietnam (until late 1970s)
North Kalimantan Communist Party

• Communists agree to a ceasefire
• Peace Agreement of Hat Yai 1989 signed between the communists and the governments of Malaysia and Thailand
• Dissolution of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP)^[50][51]

Location: Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, China

 

• Khmer Rouge
• CGDK

Lao royalists
Hmong insurgents
FULRO
 Thailand
Supported by:
 United States
 North Korea^[52]

 

• Pak Mai

Supported by:
Warsaw Pact countries (until 1991)^[52]

• Removal of the Khmer Rouge from power
• End of the Cambodian genocide
• Pro-Vietnamese government installed in Cambodia
• China withdraws from Vietnam after 27 days of fighting
• Communist Party of Thailand abandons armed struggle
• Vietnam withdraws from Cambodia in 1991
• 1990 Chengdu summit leads to the normalization of relations between China and Vietnam
• Restoration of the House of Norodom
• Ongoing insurgency in Laos

Location: Thai–Cambodian border, Gulf of Thailand

 

• PDK (Khmer Rouge)
• KPNLF
• FUNCINPEC

Supported by:
 United States
 China

• Destruction of numerous guerrilla bases and refugee camps along the Thai–Cambodian border
• Isolated outbreaks of open hostility between Vietnamese and Thai troops
• Withdrawal of Vietnamese troops from the border in 1989

Location: Chat Trakan District, Phitsanulok Province, Thailand
Botene District, Sainyabuli Province, Lao PDR

Noen 1428 (Hill 1428), the battlefield of Thai–Laotian Border War of 1988, view from Phu Soidao National Park, Chat Trakan, Phitsanulok.

• Return to status quo ante bellum

Location: Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and
the Persian Gulf

• Iraqi forces expelled from Kuwait
• Kuwaiti independence restored
• Destruction of Iraqi and Kuwaiti infrastructure

Location: East Timor

Destroyed houses in Dili

International Force:

• Australia – 5,500
• New Zealand – 1,200
• Thailand – 1,600
• Brazil 
• Canada 
• Fiji 
• France 
• Germany 
• Ireland 
• Italy 
• Jordan 
• Kenya 
• Malaysia 
• Norway 
• Pakistan 
• Philippines 
• Portugal 
• Singapore 
• South Korea 
• United Kingdom 
• United States ^[57]

• Pro-Indonesian Militias
  • Aitarak
  • Besi Merah Putih
  • Laksaur
  • Mahidi

• Defeat of pro-Indonesian militia
• Stabilisation of East Timor

 United States

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Iraq
 United States
 United Kingdom

MNF–I
(2003–09)

•  United States
  (2003–09)
•  United Kingdom
  (2003–09)
•  Australia
  (2003–09)
•  Turkey
  (2003–08)
•  Romania
  (2003–09)
•  Azerbaijan
  (2003–08)
•  Kuwait
  (2003–08)
•  Estonia
  (2003–09)
•  El Salvador
  (2003–09)
•  Bulgaria
  (2003–08)
•  Moldova
  (2003–08)
•  Albania
  (2003–08)
•  Ukraine
  (2003–08)
•  Denmark
  (2003–08)
•  Czech Republic
  (2003–08)
•  South Korea
  (2003–08)
•  Singapore
  (2003–08)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (2003–08)
•  North Macedonia
  (2003–08)
•  Latvia
  (2003–08)
•  Poland
  (2003–08)
•  Kazakhstan
  (2003–08)
•  Mongolia
  (2003–08)
•  Georgia
  (2003–08)
•  Tonga
  (2004–08)
•  Japan
  (2004–08)
•  Armenia
  (2005–08)
•  Slovakia
  (2003–07)
•  Lithuania
  (2003–07)
•  Italy
  (2003–06)
•  Norway
  (2003–06)
•  Hungary
  (2003–05)
•  Netherlands
  (2003–05)
•  Portugal
  (2003–05)
•  New Zealand
  (2003–04)
•  Thailand
  (2003–04)
•  Philippines
  (2003–04)
•  Honduras
  (2003–04)
•  Dominican Republic
  (2003–04)
•  Spain
  (2003–04)
•  Nicaragua
  (2003–04)
•  Iceland
  (2003–04)

Supported by:
 Iran^[62][63]

• Artesh

 Iraqi Kurdistan

• Peshmerga

 Iraq

• SCJL
  • JRTN

Sunni insurgents

• AQI (2004–06)
• ISI^[65] (from 2006)
• IAI
• Ansar al-Sunnah (2003–07)
• Others

Shia insurgents

• Mahdi Army
• Special Groups
• Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq
• Others

Supported by:
 Iran

• IRGC
  • Quds Force^[66]

• Invasion and occupation of Iraq
• Defeat of Ba'ath Party-led regime and execution of Saddam Hussein
• Iraqi insurgency, emergence of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and civil war
• Subsequent depletion of Iraqi insurgency, improvements in public security
• Establishment of democratic elections and formation of new Shia led government
• U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement
• Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq
• Rise of Iraqi insurgency after U.S. withdrawal and spillover with the Syrian Civil War
• Resurgence of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria

 

RTARF

RTP

VDC

 Islamic State

• East Asia Province (minimal presence)^[90]

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  Drug cartels^[91][92]
• Mayaki Cartel^[93]
• Xaysana Cartel^[94]
• Usman Cartel^[93]

Oil smugglers^[95][96][97]

Pirates^[98]

Location: Thai–Cambodian border

Phraviharngopura

• ICJ decision awards promontory of Preah Vihear to Cambodia^[99]