ABSTRACT
International armed conflict within South America was generally sporadic and isolated after World War II. The United Kingdom intervened briefly upon several occasions within British Guiana (Guyana) between 1953 and 1964 prior to independence. Civil strife within Paraguay contributed to an incident with Argentina in 1962. From the time of independence in the early nineteenth century, Ecuador disputed Peruvian control of border territories that provided access to both the Amazon Basin and the Pacific. The two waged a minor war in the Amazon in 1941 that ended largely to Peru's advantage. Formal demarcation of the border proceeded under an agreement signed in 1942. The United Kingdom asserted formal dominion within the Falkland Islands in 1833. Argentina refused to abandon her own claims to the area due to proximity and prior rule. The United Kingdom captured the colony of British Guiana from the Dutch in 1796.
