War for the Horn of Africa

The War for the Horn of Africa, also known as the Horn War, was a major armed conflict fought between 1953 and 1956, the first of many characterizing the period known as the Cold War. The war began amidst deteriorating relations between the Franco-British Union and the United Republics in the aftermath of the World Revolutionary War, with the two powers coming to cross purposes over the fate of the former Italian colonial empire. While intermittent clashes had begun from the moment the Workers' Republic of Somalia was declared in the territory of Italian Somaliland, the war proper began with Ethiopian intervention in the decolonisation of British Somaliland after a pro-communist slate won the provisional elections. Soldiers and support from across the capitalist and communist blocs would converge on the Horn of Africa in the conflict.

Fighting would end only after three and half years of fighting with an armistice agreement which would see Ethiopia de facto lose the Ogaden region to Somalia, and the integration of French Somaliland into the Somali Republic, though a formal peace treaty would not be signed between the principal belligerents, Somalia and Ethiopia, until 1979.