The island briefly fell under the protection of the United States, which was interested in its critical weather stations, after Germany occupied Denmark during World War II. President Harry Truman ...

and begins efforts to convert the Indigenous people to Christianity. This marks the start of Denmark’s modern colonization of Greenland. With the dissolution of the Kingdom of Denmark and Norway ...

Finding no survivors, he builds a new settlement at Kangeq, near modern day Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, and begins efforts to convert the Indigenous people to Christianity. This marks the start of ...