Finland
Helsinki
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- …1939Finland
- simplified version (without arms)
Course of events
- 23 August 1939
Neutral / non-belligerent
Neutral.
- 30 November 1939
Other belligerents
Winter War: attacked by the USSR.
- 13 March 1940
Neutral / non-belligerent
Moscow Peace Treaty; ceded Karelia and other territories.
- 25 June 1941
Axis powers & allies
Continuation War: fought the USSR as a co-belligerent of Germany (not a signatory of the Tripartite Pact).
- 19 September 1944
Other belligerents
Moscow Armistice with the Allies; Lapland War against German forces (1944–45).
Events involving this country
- 30 Nov 1939Winter War
- 22 Jun 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 25 Jun 1941Continuation War
- 8 Sept 1941Siege of Leningrad
- 10 Jun 1944Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive
Data completeness: borders c. 1938, status at country level; occupation zones, annexations and front lines as approximate snapshots. Units and offensives: selected, incomplete sets; archive: only items with a confirmed licence, still being added.