<P> Counsellor of state J.K. Paasikivi and his team arriving from Moscow for the first round of negotiations on 16 October 1939 . From left, minister Aarno Yrjö - Koskinen, J.K. Paasikivi, chief of staff Johan Nykopp and colonel Aladár Paasonen . </P> <Li> <P> German paratroopers taking the Greek island of Crete, May 1941 . </P> </Li> <P> German paratroopers taking the Greek island of Crete, May 1941 . </P> <Li> <P> Photograph from a Japanese plane of Battleship Row at the beginning of the surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor . The explosion in the center is a torpedo strike on the USS Oklahoma . Two attacking Japanese planes can be seen: one over the USS Neosho and one over the Naval Yard . </P> </Li>

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