how did the winter war of world war 2 contribute to the increase tensions?

Answer 1

people are freezing their asses off in a trench because some guy with a weird mustache wanted to go to war. so the faster they finish the war the faster they can go home to their nice warm fireplace.

Answer 2

After his pact with Hitler, Stalin effortlessly grabbed up Latvia, Lithuania, Esthonia and the eastern half of Poland, ruthlessly killing off anyone who might oppose him (as Hitler did in Poland's west).

The Finns, however -- though they lacked aircraft, tanks, guns, ammunition -- would not fold. Though ridiculously outnumbered in every sector, and with no foreign support, they resisted Soviet troops (eventually reaching 1,200,000, about a third of the total population of Finland) through over three months of brutal warfare.

The British and French considered aiding the Finns, but never actually did so, no more than they had the Poles. This consideration did, though, contribute to Hitler's Scandinavian jump in the late winter of 1940.

The fact that so few Finns were able to hold off so many Russians for so long may have been a factor in the June 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union.

Answer 3

which winter. There were several