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

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
First Czechoslovak Republic
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
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)

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