LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Chaco War: Armies
built 641 days ago
The Chaco War is something of a social turning point, in that Indians form the bulk of the Bolivian armies and ... take part for the first time in an essentially national endeavour. And the war is soon followed by the founding of the first political party to have their interests on its agenda.
Source:
The Chaco War is ... important historically as the first instance of aerial warfare to take place in the Western Hemisphere. Both sides made use of obsolete single-engined biplane bombers; despite an international arms embargo imposed by the League of Nations, Bolivia in particular went to great lengths in trying to import a small number of advanced twin-engined bombers masqueraded as civil transports - namely the Curtiss C-30 Condor (which were halted in Peru during deliveries) and the Junkers Ju 86 (which were delivered to Bolivia).
Source:
Salamanca's overthrow was a turning point in the Chaco War. The Paraguayan troops were stopped by new, more capable Bolivian officers, who fought closer to Bolivian supply lines. On June 14, 1935, a commission of neutral nations (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and the United States) declared an armistice; a definite settlement was finally reached in 1938. Bolivia lost the Chaco but retained the petroleum fields, which Paraguay had failed to reach. Both countries suffered heavy losses in the war. In Bolivia alone, an estimated 65,000 people were killed and 35,000 wounded or captured out of a population of just under 3 million.
Source:
MORE ABOUT
Armies