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The Continuation War, [f] also known as the Second Soviet-Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union during World War II.It began with a Finnish declaration of war on 25 June 1941 and ended on 19 September 1944 with the Moscow Armistice.
Operation Barbarossa began on 22 June 1941. On 25 June the Soviet Union launched an air raid against Finnish cities, after which Finland declared war and also allowed German troops stationed in Finland to begin offensive warfare. The resulting war was known to the Finns as the Continuation War. During the summer and autumn of 1941 the Finnish ...
This is a list of wars involving Finland since its declaration of independence on 6 December 1917. List. Conflict ... Finnish Civil War (1918) White Guard
The Romanian army began limited military operations. On June 24, Romania officially declared war on the Soviet Union. [14] 1941-06-22: Tuva: Germany: W: Tuva was a client state of the Soviet Union. Part of the USSR from 1944. 1941-06-24: Bulgaria: Greece Yugoslavia: A [6] Bulgaria declares war on Greece and Yugoslavia. 1941-06-25 Finland Soviet ...
Finland fell into the Soviet sphere. On 1 September 1939, Germany began its invasion of Poland, and two days later, the United Kingdom and France declared war on Germany. On 17 September, the Soviet invasion of Poland began. After the fall of Poland, Germany and the Soviet Union exchanged occupied Polish lands to establish a new border in ...
The subject of an independent Finland was first mentioned in the 18th century, when present-day Finland was still ruled by Sweden. On 18 March 1742, during the Russian occupation in the Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743), Empress Elizabeth of Russia issued a proclamation in the Finnish language to the Finnish people asking them to create a Finland which would be independent from both Sweden and ...
The Soviet invasion of Finland excited widespread outrage at both popular and elite levels in support of Finland not only in Britain and France but also in the neutral United States. [3] The League of Nations declared the Soviet Union to be the aggressor and expelled it. [4] "American opinion makers treated the attack on Finland as dastardly ...
On the morning of 22 June, both the Soviet Union and Finland declared that each would be neutral in respect of the other in the war that was now underway. This precipitated unease in the Nazi leadership, which tried to provoke a response from the Soviet Union by using both the Finnish archipelago as a base, and Finnish airfields for refuelling.