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 |
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
|
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|
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]
|
 United States
|
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. |
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Third Czechoslovak Republic[edit]
| Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état | Czechoslovakia
|
 Communist Party
|
Appointment of a communist-dominated government[7] |
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic[edit]
| Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950–1953 | Korean War |  Czechoslovakia[8]
|
 South Korea
|
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]
|
 South Vietnam
|
North Vietnam-Viet Cong victory; formation of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam |
| 1968–1975 | Cambodian Civil War | Czechoslovakia
|
 Cambodia
|
GRUNK-North Vietnamese Victory; establishment of Democratic Kampuchea |
| 1968 | Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia | Czechoslovakia
|
Poland
|
Warsaw Pact victory[11] |
| 1978–1989 | Cambodian-Vietnamese War | Czechoslovakia
|
 Democratic Kampuchea
|
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
|
 Iraq
|
Coalition Victory |
Slovakia[edit]
| Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001–present | War on Terror |  Slovakia
|
 Al-Qaeda
|
Ongoing conflict
• Taliban victory in the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) |
References[edit]
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- ^ Chen, Peter C. "The Slovak-Hungarian War". World War II Database. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ "Slovakian Axis Forces in WWII". FeldGrau.com. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ "Slovakia History, Slovakia in World War II". SlovakiaSite. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ "1939-1945 - Slovak Republic - World War II". globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ "Post-war Slovakia 1945-1989 - Profil Slovenskej Kultúry". Slovak Culture Profile. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ Marek, Jaromír. "Českoslovenští lékaři stáli v korejské válce na straně KLDR. Jejich mise stále vyvolává otazníky". iROZHLAS. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ "Popular Resistance in Communist Czechoslovakia: The Plzeň Uprising, June 1953". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ Willoughby, Ian. "MIRKO DOLÁK – A CZECH MARINE IN VIETNAM". Radio Prague International. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- ^ "A Look Back... The Prague Spring & the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia". Central Intelligence Agency. Archived from the original on January 14, 2009. Retrieved 3 November 2019.