Sentence examples for winter war from inspiring English sources
proper noun
A war between Finland and the Soviet Union in 1939-40, as a result of which Finland lost 11% of its territory and the Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations.
His father, dead before the winter war.
Moreover, the army group had not prepared for winter war.
The toppled trade center resembled a nuclear winter war zone.
319 p. The Winter War : Russia's invasion of Finland, 1939-1940 / Robert Edwards.
Hamas in the Gaza Strip, still in place despite the winter war, is opposed to talks.
We got up to £64,000, then we screwed up on "the winter war".
Roy Jacobsen's Hoggerne portrayed a Finnish village fool turned heroic leader during the Russo-Finnish Winter War.
"Since I started tweeting about the Winter War, the number of my followers who tweet in Finnish has exploded," he said in an e-mail.
Some Finns were reluctant, however, to cross the old border of 1939, and the spirit of the Winter War that had united the Finns began to weaken.
The armistice ultimately led to a peace treaty by which Finland was forced to make concessions more extensive than those made after the winter war.
At the outbreak of the Winter War of 1939 40, he became foreign minister and supported his government's hard line against Soviet demands.
