Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A lokacin yaƙe-yaƙe biyu na duniya da Yakin Cacar Baki, an tilasta wa ƙananan ƙasashen Nordic biyar yin aiki mai wuya, amma sun ci gaba da 'yancin kansu da kuma ci gaba da dimokiradiyya na zaman lafiya. Kasashen Nordic sun kasance tsaka tsaki a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na ɗaya, amma a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na biyu ba za su iya ware kansu daga siyasar duniya ba. Tarayyar Soviet ta kai wa Finland hari a 1939 kuma Finland ta ba da yanki bayan Yaƙin hunturu. A shekara ta 1941, Finland ta kaddamar da wani hari na ramuwa
a hade tare da Jamus hari a kan Tarayyar Soviet. Koyaya, an rasa ƙarin ƙasa kuma tsawon shekaru masu zuwa manufofin Finnish na waje ya dogara ne akan sasantawa da Tarayyar Soviet, kodayake Finland ta sami damar riƙe tsarin mulkin demokraɗiyya. Denmark da Norway sun mamaye Jamus a 1940. Allies sun amsa ta hanyar mamaye Iceland, Faroe Islands da Greenland. Sweden ta sami nasarar riƙe tsaka tsaki a cikin rikici na Axis / Allies kuma ta guji tashin hankali kai tsaye, amma a aikace ta dace da burin ikon da ke da iko <unk> da farko Jamus, daga baya Allies. Duk da haka, a lokacin Yakin hunturu tsakanin Finland da Rasha a cikin 1939-1940 Sweden ta goyi bayan Finland kuma ta ayyana kanta a matsayin "marasa fada" maimakon tsaka tsaki.