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B. Denmark and the United States were among 12 nations that formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949, when Trump was three years old. NATO members agree to defend each other if attacked. A U.S. air base was built on Greenland in 1951 to protect against any attack by the Soviet Union on America. The base is still active.
A. In 986, a group of Norseman who had been exiled from Iceland established a settlement on the island. They named the world’s northernmost land area “Greenland” in hope of attracting more settlers. They were the first Europeans known to settle in North America, more than 500 years before Christopher Columbus arrived.
D. Trump called climate change a “hoax,” but the warming Arctic is opening new shipping routes and could make oil-drilling and mineral mining possible. Shipping and natural resources make Greenland more attractive to world powers. Rising sea levels from the melting ice sheet threaten some of the world’s most populous areas.
C. The Inuit are the largest Indigenous group in the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America. Greenlanders elect a government to take care of domestic affairs and representatives to Denmark’s government which handles foreign and financial affairs of the island. Greenlanders may vote for complete independence from Denmark at any time.