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The Swedish Intervention in the Winter War was a short-lived but successful attempt by the Swedish Volunteer Corps, along with other Nordic volunteers, to prevent a Soviet invasion of Finland during the Winter War. The volunteers only engaged in a few skirmishes on ground and in the air, the only major battles they participated in being the battles of Salla and Honkaniemi. The term "volunteers" have often been used to describe the Nordic military support for Finland in the Winter War, although involvement by the government of Sweden has been debated over time. Nevertheless, the Swedish military sent enormous amounts of aid to Finland, including: *Approximately 2,000,000,000 crowns (US$ ~312,658,890) of financial aid - twice the size of the Finnish defense budget at the time *50,013,300 rounds of small arms ammunition *135,402 rifles *450 light machine guns *347 machine guns *301,846 artillery shells *144 field guns *92 anti-armor guns *100 anti-aircraft guns *300 sea mines *500 depth charges *83 motorcycles *83 cars *350 trucks *13 tractors *17 fighter aircraft *5 light bombers *1 transport aircraft *3 reconnaissance aircraft == Background == (詳細はKarelian Isthmus and all islands in the Gulf of Finland, as well as a demand to dismantle the defences in Finnish Karelia.〔Jowett & Snodgrass (2006), p. 4〕〔Trotter (2002), pp. 14–16〕 Finland at the time was only officially allied with Estonia,〔Turtola (1999a), pp. 33–34〕 as Sweden had rejected participation in the anti-Soviet alliance.〔Turtola (1999a), pp. 21–24〕 The ''casus belli'' for the Soviet invasion was a claimed Finnish attack against the Russian village of Mainila, although it was later revealed that this was a false flag action conducted by the military of the Soviet Union.〔Edwards (2006), p. 105〕〔Turtola (1999a), pp. 44–45〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Swedish Intervention in the Winter War」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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