Winter War

Winter War
Date	Nov 30, 1939 – Mar 13, 1940
Location	Eastern Finlandball
Causes	Finlandball rejected
Status	Over
Result	Soviet Victory: Finlandball gets to keep his independence, but loses some clay
Territorial changes	Finlandball loses Salla, the entire Karelian Isthmus and land north of Lake Ladoga, Rybachi peninsula and islands in Gulf of Finland.
Belligerents
Finlandball
Soviet Unionball
Commanders
File:Kallio-icon.png Kyösti Kallio Risto Ryti File:Mannerheim-icon.png C.G.E. Mannerheim Hugo Österman Harald Öhquist Erik Heinrichs Woldemar Hägglund Wiljo Tuompo
Joseph Stalin Kliment Voroshilov Semyon Timoshenko Kirill Meretskov Vladimir Grendal Grigori Shtern Mikhail Dukhanov Valerian Frolov File:DR Finland-icon.png Otto Wille Kuusinen
Strength
300,000–340,000 soldiers 32 tanks 114 aircraft
425,000–760,000 soldiers 2,514–6,541 tanks 3,880 aircraft
Casualties
25,904 dead or missing 43,557 wounded 800–1,100 captured
126,875–167,976 dead or missing 188,671–207,538 wounded or sick (including at least 61,506 sick or frostbitten) 5,572 captured

The Winter War, also known as the First Soviet-Finnish War, was when Finland kiced some Soviet ass a war between the Soviet Unionball and Finlandball. The war began with a Soviet invasion of Finlandball 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. Despite superior military strength, especially in tanks and aircraft, the Soviet Unionball suffered severe losses and initially made little headway. League of Nationsball deemed the attack illegal and expelled the Soviet Unionball from the organisation.