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Greenland was once a colony of Denmark, (following the 1814 Treaty of Kiel, which dissolved the union of Norway with Denmark) but in August 1946 - a year following the defeat of Imperial Japan and the final end of the war - the United States acquired a strategic interest in Greenland. The US offered Denmark $100 million for the island - an offer that seemed too good to refuse. With Danish war debts exceeding $60 million USD, they reluctantly accepted the offer, and Greenland was officially transferred to American control on September 17, 1946.

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rdfs:label
  • Greenland (Alternity)
rdfs:comment
  • Greenland was once a colony of Denmark, (following the 1814 Treaty of Kiel, which dissolved the union of Norway with Denmark) but in August 1946 - a year following the defeat of Imperial Japan and the final end of the war - the United States acquired a strategic interest in Greenland. The US offered Denmark $100 million for the island - an offer that seemed too good to refuse. With Danish war debts exceeding $60 million USD, they reluctantly accepted the offer, and Greenland was officially transferred to American control on September 17, 1946.
Nation
  • United States of America
dcterms:subject
city largest
city other
  • Thule, Manitsoq, Ilulissat
name short
  • Greenland
dbkwik:alt-history...iPageUsesTemplate
dbkwik:althistory/...iPageUsesTemplate
division type
  • Territory of the
CoA
  • Coat of arms of Greenland.svg
abbreviations
  • GR
Timeline
  • Alternity
map caption
  • Location of Greenland
Name en
  • Greenland
flag width
  • 110(xsd:integer)
Name
  • Kalaallit Nunaat
coa caption
  • Coat of Arms
regime
  • Representative
  • democracy
HoPname
  • Lars Emil Johansen
HoPtitle
  • Governor
Language
  • English, Kalaallisut
Currency
  • USD
Population
  • 210000(xsd:integer)
Flag caption
  • Flag
Title
  • page
Governing body
  • Legislature
coa width
  • 80(xsd:integer)
Timezone
  • UTC+0 to UTC-5
map width
  • 275(xsd:integer)
otl
  • Greenland
Capital
Flag
  • Achen Greenland Flag Proposal.svg
abstract
  • Greenland was once a colony of Denmark, (following the 1814 Treaty of Kiel, which dissolved the union of Norway with Denmark) but in August 1946 - a year following the defeat of Imperial Japan and the final end of the war - the United States acquired a strategic interest in Greenland. The US offered Denmark $100 million for the island - an offer that seemed too good to refuse. With Danish war debts exceeding $60 million USD, they reluctantly accepted the offer, and Greenland was officially transferred to American control on September 17, 1946. In the fifty-one years since, the United States has overseen the political and military affairs relating to the island, building multiple bases and heavily upgrading the island's outdated infrastructure. Beginning in 1966, a relatively narrow-gauge rail was constructed along the western coast to link the major settlements with the territorial capital at Narsaq in the south. But given Greenland's bitterly cold weather and hostile terrain even along the ice-free sections of the coast, completion of the rail line was delayed well into the 1980s.
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