The Soviets demanded territories on the Karelian Isthmus, the islands of the Gulf of Finland and a military base near the Finnish capital Helsinki, which Finland rejected.

" Finland rejected territorial demands and was invaded by the Soviet Union in November 1939.

Gustav IV naturally rejected all the proposals of Alexander to close the Baltic against the English ; but took no measures to defend Finland against Russia, though, during the autumn of 1807, it was notorious ( obvious ) that the tsar was preparing to attack the grand duchy.

The Soviet Union wanted to annex Finland and offered a union agreement, but Finland rejected it, which caused Soviet Union to attack against Finland on November 30.

Finland rejected the demands and on November 30, the Soviet Union invaded Finland, thus triggering the Winter War.

With his comments Brownlee rejected New Zealand Labour Party's plans to model the economy on Finland, and added that Finland " has worse unemployment than us, has less growth than us, can hardly feed the people who live there, has a terrible homicide rate, hardly educates its people, and has no respect for women.

In the " Statsrådsdiktamen " on 19 February 1940, Sweden's king Gustaf V publicly rejected pleas from Finland's government for military intervention in the Winter War to help defend Finland against the Soviet invasion.

Soon afterwards, the nobility of Finland, led by the Sigismund-appointed Governor, Klaus Fleming, rejected these decisions.

The Central Committee of the KTP rejected after voting ( 18 – 9 ) a proposed membership in a new ( electoral ) party, Forces for Change in Finland ( MVS ), in which clearly right-wing elements were also going to participate.

None of the Scandinavian countries ( except Finland ) have joined the Euro, membership being rejected by referendum in both Denmark and Sweden.

The approach from Scunthorpe was rejected by Paatelainen, but soon afterwards he accepted an offer from Finland.

Aalto's early career runs in parallel with the rapid economic growth and industrialization of Finland during the first half of the twentieth century and many of his clients were industrialists ; among these were the Ahlström-Gullichsen family.

In these conditions the independence of Finland, gained in December 1917, gave more freedom of action to the competing groups and deepened the power struggle.

While there are 68 total members of the International Ice Hockey Federation ( IIHF ), 162 of 177 medals at the IIHF World Championships have been taken by these seven nations: Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and the United States.

Cadmium levels are high in Finnish elk liver and kidneys, with the result that consumption of these organs from elk more than one year old is prohibited in Finland.

The triangular warning signs common in Sweden, Norway, and Finland have become coveted souvenirs among tourists traveling in these countries, causing the road authorities so much expense that the moose signs have been replaced with image-less generic warning signs in some regions.

In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included a secret protocol dividing Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland into German and Soviet spheres of influence, anticipating potential " territorial and political rearrangements " of these countries.

New states gained independence during this turmoil, and many of these, such as Ireland, Poland, Finland and Czechoslovakia, chose republican forms of government.

Because of these factors, and high commitment and morale in the Finnish forces, Finland was able to resist the Soviet invasion for far longer than the Soviets expected ; Finnish forces inflicted stunning losses on the Red Army for the first three to four months while suffering very few losses of their own.

Like in Sweden and Finland, these vehicles in continental Europe will run a 60 ton weight limit.

This edition was also translated and published abroad in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Finland, and Japan, and it entered these markets before Dungeons & Dragons did in most cases.

Halonen has defended cluster bombs and did not sign a treaty which would have banned Finland from using these kinds of weapons.

* Paris Peace Treaties, 1947, formally established peace between the World War II Allies and Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Romania, and Finland ( Germany and Japan, having surrendered unconditionally, were not party to these negotiations.

Rallying became very popular in Sweden and Finland in the 1950s, thanks in part to the invention there of the specialsträcka ( Swedish ) or erikoiskoe ( Finnish ), or special stage: shorter sections of route, usually on minor or private roads — predominantly gravel in these countries — away from habitation and traffic, which were separately timed.

The first issue of these coins were minted in 2006, by the Mint of Finland, for the Slovenian euro coins.

Finland was the first state in the EMU ( European Monetary Union ) to implement these changes.

Note that Finland is the only country highlighted on earth, as a representation of the host of these games.

Large numbers of these Mosin-Nagant rifles, some Russian, and some made by foreign countries such as France and even America for Tsarist Russia, were inherited and then re-worked by Finland into various models prior to WWII.

Many of these weapons were sold to Finland in the 1920s.

Students from many other countries attended schools under these plans, including Argentina, Belgium, Ceylon, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, Fiji, France, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and the United States.

For the most part, these dialects and the dialects spoken in Sweden are mutually intelligible, although some archaic Swedish dialects in Ostrobothnia are practically unintelligible to Swedish-speaking people in southern Finland ( and in Sweden ).

From the 16th century, Swedish was the main language of jurisdiction, administration, and higher education in Finland, but the majority of the population spoke Finnish outside of these sectors of society, i. e. in normal, daily life.

Compromising much of present-day Finland, these became a Grand Duchy under the Emperor, but the political institutions were kept practically intact.

All of these styles were combined around 1900 into the Swedish school of rhythmic gymnastics, which would later add dance elements from Finland.

Thus they aimed to annex these territories as well as to obtain a buffer zone from Finland in 1939-40 ( see Soviet-Finnish War ).

This gun was used by Greece who, by 1939, had sold many of these guns to Finland, where it was known as the 75 LK 13 or 76 LK 10 / 13.

The demands led to demonstrations and large-scale strikes in both industry and agriculture throughout Finland.

* 1944 – Continuation war: the Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg – Petrozavodsk Offensive.

The demands were that Finland cede the Karelian Isthmus, including the city of Viipuri, and Finland's shore of Lake Ladoga.

With Poland being divided between two powers, the Soviet Union put forth its territorial demands to Finland for a minor part of the Karelian Isthmus, a naval base at Hanko ( Hangö ) peninsula and some islands in the Gulf of Finland.

The Soviet Union had lost substantial territory in eastern Europe as a result of the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, where it gave in to German demands and ceded control of Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Finland, among others, to the " Central Powers ".

The Soviet demands on Finland in the months prior to the outbreak of war had roused public opinion.

Despite the Finnish and Russian demands of including much of today's Swedish Torne River Valley territory into the autonomous Russian Grand Duchy of Finland, the area remained part of the Kingdom of Sweden as a result of the peace treaty signed between Russia and Sweden in 1809.

The Svecoman ( Swedish Svekoman ) movement was a Swedish nationalist movement that arose in the Grand Duchy of Finland at the end of the 19th century chiefly as a reaction to the demands for increased use of Finnish vigorously presented by the Fennoman movement.

** The Soviet Union demands troop transfer rights through Finland

Finland, alliance demands from Hitler's Germany and the Ryti-Ribbentrop-agreement.

The Brigade trains units suited for combat on the heavy snow and poor road-infrastructure areas of Northern Finland, and has several variations from normal Finnish Army training schedules and equipment to meet these demands, such as the light tracked all-terrain vehicles used for fast transportation of troops especially during wintertime.