How Did Finland Participate In World War II?

Finland’s participation in World War II was extremely interesting and bizarre compared to the other European countries throughout the war. To begin with, one must know with the backstory between Finland and the Soviet Union. To quickly summarize, the Soviet Union has constantly been trying to take Finland’s land. This conflict started in the early 1800’s and continued on to the very end of World War II. At the beginning of the war, well what started the war between Finland and the Soviet Union, was the “supposed” attack by the Finnish army on the Soviet Union’s territory of Mainila. The Soviet Union claimed that the army attacked their village, however this was revealed to be false so the Soviet Union could create propaganda in order to create a cause to start a war with Finland. Finally on November 30th 1939, the Soviet Union air raids on Helsinki, …show more content…
Unfortunately, the wrong type of aid was to come to their rescue. With the first part of the war, which was considered the winter war, continuing on Finland soon came to the realize they could not hold off the Soviet Union’s military forces and were forced to give in and sign a peace treaty with the Soviet Union. The Moscow peace treaty essentially divided up a huge parts of Finland’s land to the Soviet Union. Afterwards “the entire Finnish people considered the Moscow peace a gross injustice but submitted to it and proceeded honestly to fulfill its terms” (Wuroinen, p. 81). However, the aid that Finland desperately needed came to the rescue at this moment. Finland turned to Nazi Germany for military aid, which was named Operation Barbarossa in which both Finland and Germany tried to invade the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. (“Military History of Finland during World War II”, 2017). The ending results was of course the Soviet Union dropping more bombs on Finland’s’ cities and declaring war on