Channels, Spring 2018

Channels • 2018 • Volume 2 • Number 2 Page 63 regroup, and counterattack, turning the tide against superior German forces. Though it lasted only 105 days, engaged only one major world power, and could be considered a military fiasco, the Winter War played a crucial role in the development of World War II, especially in the ways in which it impacted the decisions of Germany and Russia in 1940 and 1941 and foreshadowed the eventual outcome of a German invasion.