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.
width=100 | Date | width=180 | Conflict | width=250 | Combatant 1 | width=250 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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First Czechoslovak Republic | ||||||||
1918–1919 | Hungarian-Czechoslovak War | Until 21 March 1919: From 21 March 1919: | Slovak defeat; formation of the short lived Slovak Soviet Republic | |||||
1919 | Polish-Czechoslovak War | Cieszyn Silesia divided between Czechoslovakia and Poland[1] | ||||||
Second Czechoslovak Republic | ||||||||
1938 | Sudeten German uprising | SdP sympathisers[2] | Uprising partially suppressed | |||||
Slovak Republic (partially recognised) | ||||||||
1939 | Slovak-Hungarian War | ![]() | Slovak defeat[3] | |||||
1939–1945 | World War II | valign=top | Axis | 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 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 | Communist Party | Appointment of a communist-dominated government[7] | |||||
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic | ||||||||
1950–1953 | Korean War | [8] | ![]() | Military stalemate; Korean Conflict continues | ||||
1953 | Air battle over Merklín | Czechoslovak victory; 1 American F-84 Thunderjet is shot down, but the pilot survives. | ||||||
1953 | Plzeň uprising of 1953[9] | Plzeň Workers | Czechoslovak victory; uprisings suppressed | |||||
1955–1975 | Vietnam War | ,, Viet Cong,, Khmer Rouge, Khmer Issarak, Pathet Lao, ![]() ![]() | ,,, ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | North Vietnam-Viet Cong victory; formation of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam | ||||
1968–1975 | Cambodian Civil War | GRUNK Viet Cong ![]() ![]() Romania | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | GRUNK-North Vietnamese victory; establishment of Democratic Kampuchea | ||||
1968 | Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia | Warsaw Pact victory[10] | ||||||
1978–1989 | Cambodian-Vietnamese War | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (alleged) | Vietnamese victory; collapse of Democratic Kampuchea | |||||
Czech and Slovak Federative Republic | ||||||||
1990–1991 | Gulf War | Czechoslovakia,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, | Coalition victory | |||||
Slovakia | ||||||||
2001–present | War on Terror | ![]() | Al-Qaeda ISIL
Pakistani Taliban | Ongoing conflict• Taliban victory in the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) |