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

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

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

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

 Germany

Uprising partially suppressed

Slovak Republic

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

 Nazi Germany

 Japan

 Hungary

Axis

 United States

Poland

France

 Soviet Union

Allies

Defeat; Dissolution of the Slovak Republic[6]

Third Czechoslovak Republic

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

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

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1990-1991 Gulf War Czechoslovakia[12]
 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

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

 NATO

Al-Qaeda

ISIL

Afghan Taliban

Pakistani Taliban

Ongoing conflict

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