Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They decided intervention was out. To get a sufficient force-say 80,000 men-into action would be an extremely slow process. Even if Scandinavia permitted transit, they would have to land far north, either at Trondhjem or Narvik in Norway...
...peace: removal of the threat of a Northern Front, perhaps more help from a peaceful Russia, a resultant strengthening of prestige and power not only in the North as a peace broker, but in the Balkans, where the Allies are titular protectors as they were supposed to be in Scandinavia...
...other hand, channels of supply are now open which were not in the last war when all Europe was fighting. Though cut off by sea, she now has access to trade with Scandinavia, Italy, and the Balkans...
...further complications in the war situation if Russia had defeated Finland. "Scandinavia alone could not have staved off Russia," he asserted. "The invasion of Scandinavia by Russia would almost certainy have brought Allied intervention regardless of what stand Germany took...
...Russia extends her hegemony around the Baltic and reaches back toward maritime power, Zhdanov gains in prestige. For Leningrad is Russia's No. 1 seaport-in area, the world's second largest-and headquarters of the Red Fleet. And if Russia's power spreads through Scandinavia to the Atlantic, Zhdanov will be the man who wields...