List of wars involving Slovakia

This is a list of wars involving the Slovak Republic and its predecessor states. There have been 15 wars that ever included Slovakia, only one of them being after Slovakia became independent. The first war was the Hungarian–Czechoslovak War, which was between Hungary and Czechoslovakia. The most recent is the ongoing War on Terror.

First Czechoslovak Republic edit

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1918–1919 Hungarian-Czechoslovak War   Czechoslovakia until 21 March 1919  Hungarian Republic

from 21 March 1919   Hungary

Slovak Defeat; formation of the short lived Slovak Soviet Republic
1919 Polish-Czechoslovak War   Czechoslovakia   Poland Cieszyn Silesia divided between Czechoslovakia and Poland[1]

Second Czechoslovak Republic edit

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1938 Sudeten German uprising   Czechoslovakia   SdP sympathisers[2]

  Germany

Uprising partially suppressed

Slovak Republic edit

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1939 Slovak-Hungarian War   Slovak Republic (1939–1945)   Hungary Slovak Defeat[3]
1939–1945 World War II   Slovak Republic (1939–1945)[4][5]

  Nazi Germany

  Japan

  Hungary

Axis

  United States

  Poland

  France

  Czechoslovakia

  Soviet Union

Allies

Victory of the Allies and Czechoslovakia (with the Slovak National Council on their side); defeat and dissolution of the Slovak Republic,[6] which according to the Czechoslovak law (and the theory of legal continuity) legally never existed. The current Slovak Republic does not consider itself a successor state of the wartime Slovak Republic.

Third Czechoslovak Republic edit

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1948 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état   Czechoslovakia   Communist Party

  Soviet Union

Appointment of a communist-dominated government[7]

Czechoslovak Socialist Republic edit

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1950–1953 Korean War   Czechoslovakia[8]

  North Korea

  China

  Soviet Union

  Bulgaria

  East Germany

  Hungary

  Poland

  Romania

  South Korea

  United States

  United Nations

Military Stalemate; Korean Conflict continues
1953 Air battle over Merklín   Czechoslovakia   United States Czechoslovak victory; 1 American F-84 Thunderjet is shot down, yet the pilot survives.
1953 Plzeň uprising of 1953[9]   Czechoslovakia Plzeň Workers Czechoslovak victory; uprisings suppressed
1955–1975 Vietnam War   Czechoslovakia[10]

  North Vietnam

  Viet Cong

  Khmer Rouge

  Khmer Issarak

  Pathet Lao

  China

  North Korea

  Soviet Union

  Cuba

  Poland

  Hungary

  East Germany

  Bulgaria

  Romania

  South Vietnam

  United States

  South Korea

  Thailand

  Australia

  New Zealand

  Laos

  Khmer Republic

  Philippines

  Turkey

  Spain

  Taiwan

  Brazil

  Japan

  Iran

  Malaysia

  West Germany

  United Kingdom

North Vietnam-Viet Cong victory; formation of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
1968–1975 Cambodian Civil War   Czechoslovakia

  GRUNK

  North Vietnam

  Viet Cong

  Soviet Union

  China

  Cuba

  Romania

  Cambodia

  Khmer Republic

  United States

  South Vietnam

  Australia

  Canada

  France

  Malaysia

  Singapore

  Thailand

GRUNK-North Vietnamese Victory; establishment of Democratic Kampuchea
1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia   Czechoslovakia   Poland

  Soviet Union

  Bulgaria

  East Germany

  Hungary

Warsaw Pact victory[11]
1978–1989 Cambodian-Vietnamese War   Czechoslovakia

  Vietnam

  Kampuchea

  Soviet Union

  Poland

  East Germany

  Democratic Kampuchea

  Thailand

  China

  Malaysia

  Singapore

  United Kingdom

  United States (alleged)

Vietnamese Victory; collapse of Democratic Kampuchea

Czech and Slovak Federative Republic edit

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1990–1991 Gulf War   Czechoslovakia
  Kuwait
  United States
  United Kingdom
  Saudi Arabia
  Egypt
  France

  Syria

  Morocco

  Oman

  Pakistan

  Canada

  United Arab Emirates

  Qatar

  Bangladesh

  Italy

  Australia

  Netherlands

  Niger

  Philippines

  Sweden

  Argentina

  Senegal

  Spain

  Bahrain

  Belgium

  Poland

  South Korea

  Singapore

  Norway

  Greece

  Denmark

  New Zealand

  Hungary

  Iraq Coalition Victory

Slovakia edit

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
2001–present War on Terror   Slovakia

  NATO

  Al-Qaeda

  ISIL

  Afghan Taliban

  Pakistani Taliban

Ongoing conflict

Taliban victory in the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)

References edit

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