A valiant defense wasn't enough against the might of the Red Army.
Total Events: 19
1939 Thursday November 30th
Five Soviet armies cross into Finland, beginning the Winter War.
1939 Friday December 1st
The Soviet Union installs a Finnish-Soviet puppet government in Terijoki to be led by Otto Kuusinen.
1939 Tuesday December 5th
After some initial advances, the Soviet Army if forced to stop by the Finnish defenses at the Mannerheim Line.
1939 Saturday December 9th
As the Finnish winter worsens, Soviet attacks on Helsinki stall.
1939 Saturday December 9th
The Soviet 44th and 163rd Divisions take the Finnish town of Soumussalmi.
1939 Friday December 15th
Finnish defenders keep the town of Nautsi from falling under Soviet control.
1939 Friday December 15th
The deteriorating conditions of a Finnish winter protect Helsinki from additional Soviet attacks.
1939 Friday December 15th
The Mannerheim Line holds as Soviet Army elements are kept at bay.
1939 Friday December 15th
Valliant Finnish forces repel the Soviet Army out of Soumussalmi, retaking the town.
1939 Friday December 15th
The Soviet 14th Army takes Petsamo.
1939 Sunday December 17th - December 31st
Finnish Army elements cross into Soviet Karelia, unleashing hell on the Russian 44th and 163rd Divisions. Some 27,000 Russian soldiers are killed.
1940 Tuesday January 2nd
A new Soviet offensive on the Karelian isthmus fails.
1940 Sunday January 7th
Stalin appoints a new commander to oversee the Winter War - General Semyon Timoshenko.
1940 Sunday January 28th
Finnish ground forces recover territory from the Soviet 54th Division at Kuhmo.
1940 Thursday February 1st
The Soviets enact a new offensive against Finnish positions along the Mannerheim Line, beginning with artillery attack accounting for some 300,000 shells.
1940 Sunday February 11th - February 17th
The Soviet Army breaks through the defenses at the Mannerheim Line at Summa. Finnish Army units retreat.
1940 Friday February 23rd
The Soviet government delivers terms of surrender to the Finnish government, claiming the Karelian isthmus and Lake Lagoda as their own. The Finns are required to defend the Soviet Union from the north if the empire is attacked.
1940 Tuesday March 5th
Finland responds to the Soviet surrender overture with negotiations.
1940 Tuesday March 12th
After months of fighting and countless lives lost on both sides, the Finnish government officially accepts the surrender terms of the Russian proposal in an internal vote numbering 145 to 3.
