Information
Name: Winter War
Type: Event
Start: 1939
End: 1940
Parents: World War II (Eastern Theatre)
Children: Battles in Ladoga Karelia, Soviet offensive (Winter War)
Winter War: All Data
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The Winter War, also known as the First Soviet-Finnish War, was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. The war began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940.