List of wars involving Finland

This is a list of wars involving Finland since its declaration of independence on 6 December 1917.

List

Conflict	Party 1	Party 2	Result	Finnish leaders		Finnish losses (dead or missing)
				Head of State	Chief of Defence
Finnish Civil War (1918)	Template:Plainlist	Template:Plainlist	Finnish Whites victory German hegemony until November 1918 Division in Finnish society Collapse of the Finnish Reds Dissolution of the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic	Pehr Evind Svinhufvud {{safesubst:#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }}	C. G. E. Mannerheim {{safesubst:#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }}	~30,000<ref>National Archive</ref> (Reds and Whites) {{safesubst:#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }}
Heimosodat (1918–1922)	Template:PlainlistTemplate:Flag (Estonian War of Independence)	Template:Plainlist (Viena expedition and Petsamo expeditions)	Treaty of Tartu Finnish victory in Estonia and annexation of Petsamo Soviet victory in White Karelia, Aunus, Petrograd and East Karelia	K. J. Ståhlberg {{safesubst:#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }}	Karl Fredrik Wilkama {{safesubst:#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }}	~550 {{safesubst:#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }}
Winter War (1939–1940) Part of the European theatre of World War II	Template:Flag Foreign volunteers	Template:Flag Finnish Democratic Republic	Moscow Peace Treaty Soviet conquest of Finland fails Cession of the Gulf of Finland islands, Karelian Isthmus, Ladoga Karelia, Salla, Rybachy Peninsula and lease of Hanko to the Soviet Union	Kyösti Kallio {{safesubst:#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }}	C. G. E. Mannerheim {{safesubst:#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }}	25,904Template:Refn {{safesubst:#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }}
Continuation War (1941–1944) Part of the Eastern Front of World War II	Template:Flag Template:Flagcountry Naval support: Template:FlagcountryTemplate:Refn	Template:Flagcountry Air support: Template:Nowrap	Defeat <ref name="Mouritzen1997">Template:Cite book</ref> Moscow Armistice Start of the Lapland War Petsamo ceded to the USSR Porkkala Peninsula leased to the USSR for 50 yearsTemplate:Refn Hanko retaken by Finland	Risto Ryti {{safesubst:#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }}		63,204Template:Refn {{safesubst:#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }}
Lapland War (1944–1945) Part of the Second World War	Template:Flagicon Finland Minor air support: Template:Flagicon Soviet UnionTemplate:Efn	Template:Flagicon Germany	Victory German retreat from Finnish territory	C. G. E. Mannerheim {{safesubst:#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }}		1,036Template:Sfn {{safesubst:#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }}

See also

• Military of the Grand Duchy of Finland
• Military history of Finland
• List of Finnish treaties
• Finland Guard Regiment

Notes

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