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The Czechoslovak-Polish War, widely known in Czech sources as the Seven-Day War (Czech: Sedmidenní válka) was a military confrontation between Czechoslovakia and Poland over the territory of Cieszyn Silesia in early 1919.
The Seven-Day War can refer to the: Polish–Czechoslovak War, fought between Poland and Czechoslovakia, from January 23 to January 30, 1919. Known in Czech sources as the Seven-Day War (Czech: Sedmidenní válka). Operation Accountability, fought between Israel and Hezbollah from July 25 to July 31, 1993.
The Soviet Union planned to have reached Lyon by day nine, and to press on to a final position at the Pyrenees. [5] Czechoslovakia thought the plan was too optimistic at the time, and some present-day Western planners believe that such a goal was unrealistic or even unattainable. [5]
A memorial to Poles fallen during the 1919 Polish-Czech conflict in Zebrzydowice, Cieszyn Silesia. In January 1919, a war erupted between the Second Polish Republic and the First Czechoslovak Republic over the Cieszyn Silesia area in Silesia. The Czechoslovak government in Prague requested for the Poles to cease their preparations for national ...
About 1.4 million Czech soldiers fought in World War I, 150,000 of which died. More than 90,000 Czech and Slovak volunteers formed the Czechoslovak Legions in Russia, France and Italy, where they fought against the Central Powers and later with White Russian forces against Bolshevik troops. [ 5 ]
The same day, Hitler met with Chamberlain and demanded the swift takeover of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany under threat of war. Czechoslovakia, Hitler claimed, was slaughtering the Sudeten Germans. Chamberlain referred the demand to the British and French governments, both of which accepted.
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:
The First Czechoslovak Republic emerged from the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in October 1918. The new state consisted mostly of territories inhabited by Czechs and Slovaks, but also included areas containing majority populations of other nationalities, particularly Germans (22.95 %), who accounted for more citizens than the state's second state nation of the Slovaks, [1] Hungarians ...