Conflict Belligerents Result Date Name Allies Enemies Outcome 28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918 World War I
Austro-Hungarian mountain corps in Tyrol Central Powers Austria-Hungary German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Allied Powers [ 1] France British Empire Russian Empire (1914–17) Kingdom of Serbia Kingdom of Montenegro Belgium Japan Italy (from 1915) Portugal (from 1916) Romania (from 1916) Greece (from 1917) Siam (from 1917) Co-belligerents Hejaz (from 1916) United States (from 1917) Brazil (from 1917) Defeat December 1918 – June 1919 Hungarian–Czechoslovak War
Hungarian Red Army in Kassa, 1919. First Hungarian Republic Hungarian Soviet Republic
Slovak Soviet Republic Czechoslovakia Military Victory
Political DefeatHungarian advance into Czechoslovakia, then withdraw after negotiations Creation and dissolution of the Slovak Soviet Republic 13 November 1918 – 3 August 1919 Hungarian–Romanian War
Romanian cavalry march through Budapest, 1919. Hungarian Soviet Republic Romania Defeat 6 May 1919 Bruck an der Leitha raid Hungarian Soviet Republic German-AustriaAntibolsevista Comité ABC raid defeated 2-6 June 1919 Hungarian invasion of Prekmurje Hungarian Soviet Republic Republic of Prekmurje Victory Soviet rule restored in Prekmurje 24 June 1919 Ludovika Uprising Hungarian Soviet Republic White Hungarians Rebellion crushed 3 August – 13 October 1921 Uprising in West Hungary
Hungarian Freecorps in Burgenland, 1921. Austria Hungary (disarmament of the rebels in 1921) Rongyos Gárda Lajtabánság Bosnian and Albanian Muslim volunteersVictory Referendum called Sopron and its area remained in Hungary 20 - 23 October 1921 Charles IV's second attempt
Charles IV and Queen Zita in Sopron during the March on Budapest. Hungary Habsburg Royalists Charles' restoration fails Habsburgs dethroned 15 – 18 March 1939 Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine
Hungarian gendarme stands in front of a LT-35 tank destroyed near Fanchykovo . Hungary Carpatho-Ukraine Victory Occupation and annexation of Carpatho-Ukraine 23 – 31 March 1939 Slovak-Hungarian War
Hungarian and Slovak servicemen – gendarmes, soldiers, Hlinka Guard , 1939. Hungary Slovakia Victory Annexation of a border strip between eastern Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945Hungary entered: 27 June 1941 Hungary exited: 11 May 1945 World War II
Hungarian Arrow Cross militia and a German Tiger II tank in Budapest, October 1944 Hungarian Toldi I tank used during the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union Axis Powers Germany Italy (1940–43) Empire of Japan Affiliate states
Romania (1941–44) Hungary (from 1941) Bulgaria (1941–44) Thailand (1942–45) Client States
Slovakia Croatia Government of National Salvation
Manchukuo Mengjiang Albania Co-belligerents
Finland (1941–44)
Iraq (1941)
Vichy France (1940–44) Active neutrality
Soviet Union (1939–41)
Spain (1941–44)
Argentina (1939–44 Allied Powers Soviet Union (from June 1941) United States (from December 1941) United Kingdom China France (1939–40, 1944–45) In exile for part of the war Poland Norway Netherlands Belgium Free France (1940–44) Luxembourg Greece Czechoslovakia Other important belligerents
Canada India Australia New Zealand South Africa Yugoslavia Ethiopia Brazil Mexico Colombia Cuba Philippines Mongolia Co-belligerents
Italy (1943–1945) Romania (1944–1945) Finland (1944–1945) Bulgaria (1944–1945)
Defeat 23 October – 10 November 1956 Hungarian Revolution of 1956
The flag , with a hole where the communist coat of arms had been cut out, became the symbol of the revolution. Hungarian revolutionaries Soviet Union People's Republic of Hungary Defeat 20 – 21 August 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
Soviet tanks with invasion stripes in Czechoslovakia, 1968 Warsaw Pact Soviet Union Bulgaria Poland Hungary supported by East Germany Czechoslovakia Victory