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Before the war, Greenland was a tightly controlled colony of Denmark, otherwise closed off to the rest of the world. After the invasion of Denmark on 9 April 1940, Greenland was left on its own, because the United Kingdom's Royal Navy seized any ships arriving from Axis-controlled Europe. The UK and Canada initially laid plans to occupy points ...
The North Atlantic Front: Orkney, Shetland, Faroe and Iceland at War (2004) Nissen, Henrik S., ed. Scandinavia during the Second World War (Universitetsforlaget, 1983) Petrow, Richard. The Bitter Years; The Invasion and Occupation of Denmark and Norway, April 1940-May 1945 (1974) Riste, Olav et al. Norway and the Second World War (1996)
Norway and Denmark agreed to submit the matter in 1933 to the Permanent Court of International Justice, which decided against Norway. [65] Greenland's connection to Denmark was severed on 9 April 1940, early in World War II, after Denmark was occupied by Nazi Germany.
During World War II, when Nazi Germany invaded Denmark, Greenlanders became socially and economically less connected to Denmark and more, though informally, connected to the United States. It has never been a US territory. [1] After the war, Denmark resumed control of Greenland and in 1953, converted its status from colony to overseas amt (county).
The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung.Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until the capitulation of German forces in Europe on 8 May 1945.
It organized and supervised the resistance within Norway. One long-term impact was the abandonment of a traditional Scandinavian policy of neutrality; Norway became a founding member of NATO in 1949. [109] Norway at the start of the war had the world's fourth largest merchant fleet, at 4.8 million tons, including a fifth of the world's oil tankers.
Halland War (1256-1257) Norway: Denmark: Victory. Norway renounces its claim on Halland; Ingeborg marries Magnus VI of Norway; Scottish–Norwegian War (1262–1266) Kingdom of Norway: Scotland: Indecisive. Treaty of Perth; Hebrides and Isle of Man bought from Norway for 4,000 marks to become part of Scotland; Norwegian sovereignty recognised ...
About 1.2 million Austrians served in all branches of the German armed forces during World War II. After the defeat of the Axis Powers, the Allies occupied Austria in four occupation zones set up at the end of World War II until 1955, when the country again became a fully independent republic under the condition that it remained neutral.