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The
Falklands War (
Spanish:
Guerra de las Malvinas or
Guerra del Atlántico Sur), also known as the
Falklands Conflict or
Falklands Crisis, was a 1982 war between
Argentina and the United Kingdom. The conflict resulted from the long-standing
dispute over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands and
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, which lie in the
South Atlantic, east of Argentina.
The Falklands War began on Friday 2 April 1982, when Argentine forces invaded and
occupied the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. The British government dispatched a naval
task force to engage the
Argentine Navy and
Air Force, and retake the islands by
amphibious assault.
The resulting conflict lasted 74 days and ended with the Argentine
surrender on 14 June 1982, which returned the islands to British
control. 649 Argentine military personnel, 255 British military
personnel and three Falkland Islanders died during the conflict. It
remains the most recent external conflict to be fought by the UK without
any allied states and the
only external Argentine war since the 1880s.
It is also notable as the only time the UK has fought a war alone since the Suez Crisis ended its role as a superpower.[citation needed]
The conflict was the result of a protracted
historical confrontation
regarding the sovereignty of the islands. Argentina has asserted that
the Falkland Islands are Argentinian territory since the 19th century
and, as of 2012, shows no sign of relinquishing the claim.
[5][6][7] The claim was added to the
Argentine constitution after its reformation in 1994.
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As such, the Argentine government characterised their initial invasion
as the re-occupation of its own territory, whilst the British government
saw it as an invasion of a
British dependent territory. However, neither state officially
declared war and hostilities were almost exclusively limited to the territories under dispute and the local area of the South Atlantic.
The conflict had a strong impact in both countries. Patriotic
sentiment ran high in Argentina, but the outcome prompted large protests
against the
ruling military government, which hastened its downfall. In the United Kingdom, Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher's government was bolstered by the successful outcome, although its level of support fell in the
1983 general election.
The war has played an important role in the culture of both countries,
and has been the subject of several books, scholarly articles, films,
and songs. Over time, the cultural and political weight of the conflict
has had less effect on the British public than on that of Argentina,
where the war is still a topic of discussion.
[9]
Relations between the United Kingdom and Argentina were restored in 1989 under the
umbrella formula which states that the islands' sovereignty dispute would remain aside.
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