The history of Greenland is a history of life under extreme Arctic conditions: currently, an ice sheet covers about eighty percent of the island, restricting human activity largely to the coasts.

The 1951 Greenland Defense Agreement allowed the United States to keep its military bases in Greenland, and to establish new bases or "defense areas" if deemed necessary by NATO. The U.S. military could freely use and move between these defense areas, but was not to infringe upon Danish sovereignty in Greenland. [ 24 ]

1945: Greenland is given back to Denmark but the US and NATO use the island as a base for operations. 1953: Greenland is now integrated with Denmark and has representation in Denmark's parliament. 1968: An American B-52 bomber crashes on the island. But the bomber had four nuclear bombs and the people claim that not all weapons were found.

2025年3月6日 · Greenland - Viking, Inuit, Colonization: The Inuit are believed to have crossed to northwest Greenland from North America, using the islands of the Canadian Arctic as stepping-stones, in a series of migrations that stretched from at …

This book explores how the Danish authorities governed the colonized population in Greenland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Two competing narratives of colonialism dominate in Greenland as well as Denmark.

2024年6月19日 · No, Britain never owned Greenland. During the 18th and 19th centuries, Britain made various attempts to establish a presence in Greenland, primarily for strategic and economic reasons. However, these efforts were not successful, …

From Siam to Greenland: Danish Economic Imperialism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century JANINAPRIEBE UmeâUniversity Theance turn ofpower tothe of twentieth European century

2015年2月19日 · 1953 - Greenland becomes an integral part of the Kingdom of Denmark and obtains representation in the Danish parliament. 1953 - The Danish authorities expel Inuit hunters from their ancestral...

2025年1月27日 · The U.S. could have pressured weakened Denmark, recently liberated from Nazi Germany, to relinquish Greenland but did not. Generally, America avoids the appearance of a coercive empire. Sometimes the U.S. is called an “empire” but only in the sense that its economic and military have global influence.

Greenland with its 2.2 million square kilometers is as big as one quarter of the USA. After the creation of the United Nations in 1945, Greenland was put into the category of “non self-governing territories” due to pressure from the United States and France.