Winter War

Example Sentences

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Most of Finnish Karelia was grabbed by Joseph Stalin's forces in 1940 after the bloody Winter War, when Finland put up stiff resistance to the Soviets despite overwhelming odds.

From Barron's

The 10th Mountain Division, a light infantry unit out of Fort Drum, N.Y., specialized in rapid deployments, was modeled after the elite Finnish ski troops who effectively used mobility, camouflage and survival skills to hold off invading Soviet forces in the 1939 Winter War.

From The Wall Street Journal

"They also have a memory of the Winter War, which transpired during World War Two, where they were invaded by the Soviet Union."

From BBC

Eric Rauchway is a professor of history at the University of California–Davis who wrote about the electoral consequences of the 19th Amendment—as well as the growth of social welfare programs and federal regulation of business—in his book Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal.

From Slate

Finland has an extended history of war with its larger eastern neighbor — Finns coined the term “Molotov cocktail” during their 1939 Winter War with Russia.

From New York Times