List of wars involving Latvia

This is a list of wars that the Republic of Latvia have participated in.

The Republic of Latvia existed as a de jure sovereign state from 17 June 1940 to 4 May 1990, and was represented by the Latvian Diplomatic Service dealing with a limited part of the state functions of the Republic of Latvia. The Republic of Latvia did not engage in warfare during the period of occupation.

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Wars

Date	Conflict	Allies	Enemies	Result
1918–1920	Latvian War of Independence	Estonia Poland Latvia Lithuania	Russian SFSR	Victory Latvia gains independence Death of 3,046 Latvians Latgale gets integrated into Latvia
1919-1921	Polish - Soviet war	Poland Latvia Ukrainian People's Republic	Russian SFSR	Victory Peace of Riga
1939–1945	World War II	Soviet Union LSSR	Nazi Germany	Nazi Defeat Soviet occupation of Latvia
1945-1956	Guerilla war in the Baltic states	Estonian partisans Latvian partisans Lithuanian partisans	Soviet Union	Soviet Victory Defeat of the partisans
1991	The Barricades	Latvia	Soviet Union	Victory Dissolution of Riga OMON Eventual independence of Latvia on August 21 1991
2001–	War On Terror	United States of America United Kingdom Poland Latvia	Al-Qaeda	Ongoing
2012-	Central African Republic Civil War	Central African Republic Central African Armed Forces MINUSCA (since 2014) Rwanda Russia Wagner Group South Africa (2013) MISCA (2013–2014) EUFOR RCA Latvia	Coalition of Patriots for Change Anti-balaka MPC	Ongoing

See also

• List of wars involving Estonia
• List of wars involving Lithuania
• List of wars involving Poland