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.

## List of wars

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Date  | Conflict  | Combatant 1  | Combatant 2  | Result

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First Czechoslovak Republic
1918–1919  | Hungarian-Czechoslovak War |  Czechoslovakia | Until 21 March 1919:
Hungarian Republic
From 21 March 1919:
Hungary | Victory
1919  | Polish-Czechoslovak War |  Czechoslovakia |  Poland | Cieszyn Silesia divided between Czechoslovakia and Poland[1]
Second Czechoslovak Republic
1938  | Sudeten German uprising |  Czechoslovakia |
SdP sympathisers[2]

Germany

| Uprising partially suppressed
Slovak Republic (partially recognised)
1939  | Slovak-Hungarian War |  Slovak Republic (1939–1945) |  Hungary | Slovak defeat[3]
1939–1945  | World War II | Axis:
Slovak Republic (1939–1945)[4][5]
Nazi Germany
Japan
Hungary | Allies:
United States
Poland
France
Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union | 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 Czechoslovak law (and the theory of legal continuity) never existed. The current Slovak Republic does not consider itself a successor state of the wartime Slovak Republic.
Third Czechoslovak Republic
1948  | 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état |  Czechoslovakia |  Communist Party

Soviet Union

| Appointment of a communist-dominated government[7]
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
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, but the pilot survives.
1953  | Plzeň uprising of 1953[9] |  Czechoslovakia | Plzeň Workers  | Czechoslovak victory; uprisings suppressed
1955–1975  | Vietnam War |  Czechoslovakia,[citation needed]  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[10]
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
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
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

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1. ^ McEnchroe, Tom. "THE CZECHOSLOVAK-POLISH WAR OF JANUARY 1919 – A BRIEF CLASH WITH LASTING CONSEQUENCES". Radio Prague International. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
2. ^ "Crisis in Czechoslovakia". Facing History And Ourselves. Facing History and Ourselves. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
3. ^ Chen, Peter C. "The Slovak-Hungarian War". World War II Database. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
4. ^ "Slovakian Axis Forces in WWII". FeldGrau.com. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
5. ^ "Slovakia History, Slovakia in World War II". SlovakiaSite. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
6. ^ "1939-1945 - Slovak Republic - World War II". globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
7. ^ "Post-war Slovakia 1945-1989 - Profil Slovenskej Kultúry". Slovak Culture Profile. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
8. ^ Marek, Jaromír. "Českoslovenští lékaři stáli v korejské válce na straně KLDR. Jejich mise stále vyvolává otazníky". iROZHLAS. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
9. ^ "Popular Resistance in Communist Czechoslovakia: The Plzeň Uprising, June 1953". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
10. ^ "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.

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