List of wars involving Finland

This is a list of wars involving independent Finland. This list only includes conflicts where Finnish forces took part in actual combat, thus excluding peacekeeping operations.

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result Finnish leaders Finnish losses
President Chief of Defence
Finnish Civil War
(1918)		 White Guard
German Empire Germany		 Red Guard
Soviet-Russia		 White Senate victory
  • Russian military presence ceased.
K. J. Ståhlberg
C. G. E. Mannerheim
~30,000[1]
(Reds and Whites)
Winter War
(1939–1940)		  Finland Soviet Union Soviet Union Defeat[2] (but survival as an independent state)
Kyösti Kallio
25,904[3]
Continuation War
(1941–1944)		  Finland
Nazi Germany Germany		 Soviet Union Soviet Union Defeat[4] (but survival as an independent state)
Risto Ryti
63,204[5]
Lapland War
(1944–1945)		  Finland Nazi Germany Germany Victory
  • German retreat from Finnish territory.
C. G. E. Mannerheim
1,036[6]

For the wars during the Russian rule (1809–1917), see French invasion of Russia (1812), November Uprising (war in Poland in 1830), Russo-Turkish War (several), Russo-Japanese War (1904–05) and World War I (1914–17). For the list of wars during the Swedish rule (1249–1809), see List of Swedish wars. For information on conflicts related to Finland prior to Swedish rule, see Early Finnish wars.

See also

References

  1. ↑ National Archive
  2. ↑ Wasserstein, Bernard (2007). Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in our Time. Oxford University Press. p. 125. ISBN 9780191622519.
  3. ↑ Finnish detailed death casualties: Dead, buried 16,766; Wounded, died of wounds 3,089; Dead, not buried, later declared as dead 3,503; Missing, declared as dead 1,712; Died as a prisoner of war 20; Other reasons (diseases, accidents, suicides) 677; Unknown 137.
  4. ↑ Mouritzen, Hans (1997). External Danger and Democracy: Old Nordic Lessons and New European Challenges. Dartmouth. p. 35. ISBN 1-85521-885-2.
  5. ↑ Finnish detailed death casualties: Dead, buried 33,565; Wounded, died of wounds 12,820; Dead, not buried later declared as dead 4,251; Missing, declared as dead 3,552; Died as prisoners of war 473; Other reasons (diseases, accidents, suicides) 7,932; Unknown 611
  6. ↑ Ahto 1980, p. 296.
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