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First Vienna Award
On November 2, 1938, the First Vienna Award transferred the territories of southern Slovakia and southern Ruthenia to Hungary. Hungary was granted an area of 11,927 km ² with a population of 869,299, of which, according to the 1941 Census, 86.5% were ethnic Hungarians. Hitler even promised transfer all of Slovakia to Hungary in exchange for military support from Budapest in the war soon to be unleashed against the Soviet Union, but the Hungarians were reluctant to engage in conflict. Instead, th -
Hitler invited Tiso to Berlin
Hitler would support him if he separated Slovakia from Czechoslovakia or the Slovakia territory will be divided under Hungary, Czech Republic and Poland. -
Slovakia declared independence
On March 14, 1939 Slovakia declared independence, calling itself the Slovak Republic. German troops soon occupied Bohemia and Moravia. -
Border war broke
Hungary recognized the Slovak Republic led by Jozef Tiso. On March 23, 1939 a border war broke out between Slovakia and Hungary. Although Slovakia had signed a "Protection Treaty" with Nazi Germany, in direct violation of that treaty, Germany refused to help Slovakia. -
The end of the Slovak-Hungarian War
On April 4, 1939 the Slovak-Hungarian War (also called the "Little War") resulted in the Hungarian occupation of a narrow strip of the common border that had previously been Slovak. -
Invasion of Poland
On September 1, 1939, National Socialist Germany invaded Poland. Slovakia's Field Army Bernolák, consisting of three infantry divisions and a mobile group, participated in the invasion and was subordinate to Germany's Army Group South. -
The Tripartite Pact
The Tripartite Pact (also called the Three-Power Pact, the Axis Pact, the Three-way Pact or the Tripartite Treaty), an agreement signed in Berlin (Germany) on September 27, 1940, linked Germany, Italy and Japan as the Axis powers of World War II. -
Invasion of Poland
On November 24, 1940, Slovakia also signed the Tripartite Pact. After a few months,[when?] Hitler asked the newly-formed Slovak Republic (independent from March 1939) to join the invasion of Poland. -
Wannsee Conference
After the Wannsee Conference of 20 January 1942 the Germans agreed with the Slovaks' proposal and the two parties came to an agreement by which the Slovak Republic had to pay a fixed amount for each Jew deported. In return, Germany promised that Jews were not deported never to return to Slovakia. -
Slovak National Uprising
On August 29, 1944, the Slovak National Uprising broke out after German troops invaded Slovakia. The German occupation troops resumed the forwarding of the Final Solution by deporting Slovakian Jews to mass death-camps in Germany and occupied Poland. -
Czechoslovak Army in Slovakia
On October 1 the rebel army renamed itself as the "Czechoslovak Army in Slovakia" in order to symbolize the beginning of a Czech-Slovak reunification that the allied forces would recognize. -
German soldiers in Slovakia
A major German counteroffensive began on October 17−18, 1944, when 35,000 German soldiers entered Slovakia from Hungary (which the German military had occupied on March 19, 1944). Stalin demanded that the advance of the Second Ukrainian Front led by General Malinovsky immediately divert towards Budapest. The advance of Soviet forces west of the screeching[clarification needed] stopped in late October 1944, because Stalin's interests focused on Hungary, Austria and Poland rather than on Slovakia -
The Axis forces
By the end of October 1944, the Axis forces (six German divisions and the pro-Nazi Slovak unit) took back most of the territory which the insurgents had occupied, and surrounded the battle groups. The fighting cost at least 10,000 casualties on both sides. -
Evacuate of Banská Bystrica
The insurgents had to evacuate Banská Bystrica on October 27 just before the German takeover. SOE and OSS agents retreated to the mountains, with thousands of others fleeing the German advance. -
General Viest
On October 28, General Viest, the commader of the Czechoslovak Army in Slovakia, informed London that the resistance would move towards guerilla warfare. -
General President Hoffa
On October 30, General President Hoffa[citation needed] and Tiso celebrated in Banská Bystrica, with medals for German soldiers for their part in suppressing the revolt. -
Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp
The Germans surrounded both groups from December 25 and they were captured. Some men were summarily executed. The Germans took the rest to Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, where they were tortured and executed. -
Red army
On January 19, 1945, the Red Army occupied Bardejov, Svidník, Prešov and Košice in eastern Slovakia. On March 3–5 they took northwestern Slovakia. Soviet and Romanian troops liberated Banská Bystrica on 26 March 1945. Malinovsky's forces marched into Bratislava on 4 April 1945.
