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The war has been assigned several designations according to different political and ideological viewpoints. War of Independence (Finnish: vapaussota) was used during the war by both sides to express the fight for liberation from capitalism for the Reds and freedom from Soviet Russian influence by the Whites; Civil War is the term increasingly employed by the reconstituted social democrats ...
The Senate then opted to turn Finland into a kingdom with a German king, but owing to Germany's defeat in the world war the modern republic was created instead. [ 2 ] A Finno-Bulgarian peace treaty [ d ] was also signed at Berlin on 21 May 1918 [ 12 ] and an Austro-Hungarian–Finnish peace treaty was signed in Vienna on 29 May 1918. [ 2 ]
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 came as a complete surprise to Finland, but was immediately taken advantage of. Finland unilaterally rejected the military aspects of the Paris peace agreement, except for border agreements. In 1992, Finland and Russia replaced the so-called "YYA" agreement. [25]
However, the Socialists (The Reds) and the Whites in Finland fell into war with each other in January 1918. The Reds wanted Finland to be a Soviet republic and were aided by Russian forces still in Finland. The Whites of Finland were led by General C.G.E.Mannerheim, a Finnish baron who had been in the Tsar's service since he was 15 years old ...
United States United Kingdom ... Military history of Finland; List of Finnish treaties; Finland Guard Regiment; References. Citations Bibliography. Ahto, Sampo (1980
The history of Finland began around 9000 BC during the end of the last glacial period. Stone Age cultures were Kunda , Comb Ceramic , Corded Ware , Kiukainen , and Pöljä cultures [ fi ] . The Finnish Bronze Age started in approximately 1500 BC and the Iron Age started in 500 BC and lasted until 1300 AD.
The Battle of Helsinki was a 1918 Finnish Civil War battle, fought on 12–13 April by the German troops and Finnish Whites against the Finnish Reds in Helsinki, Finland. Together with the battles of Tampere and Vyborg , it was one of the three major urban battles of the Finnish Civil War.
The Åland Islands are located in the northern Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland. The population is Swedish-speaking, but after the 1809 Treaty of Fredrikshamn the islands were ceded to the Russian Empire together with a vast majority of the Finnish-speaking areas of Sweden, becoming the Grand Duchy of Finland, an autonomous part of the Russian Empire.