Whakaotihia te rerenga kōrero e whai ake nei: I te tau 1939 ka whakaekea e te Soviet Union a Finland e tīmata ana i te Pakanga o te Hotoke. Ko te Tiriti Hauora o Moscow o te tau 1940 i tuku i te haurua rawhiti o Finnish Karelia ki te Soviet Union. Tata ki te 400,000 tāngata, tata tonu ki te katoa o te iwi, i ārahi ki te noho i roto i a Finland. I te tau 1941 i Finland
i whakaekea te Soviet Union i te taha o nga Axis Powers hei hoa whawhai. I whakahaerehia e te tari hoia Finnish i Eastern Karelia te rohe i te 1941-1944.