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German Invasion of Norway: April 1940 (vol 1 2012); The Battle for Norway, April-June 1940 (vol 2 2010) Mann, Chris. British Policy and Strategy Towards Norway, 1941-45 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) Miller, James. The North Atlantic Front: Orkney, Shetland, Faroe and Iceland at War (2004)
Following Edmund's death on 30 November, Cnut ascends to the throne as the sole king of England. Battle of the Helgeå (1026) Kingdom of Norway Sweden: Anglo-Danish Kingdom: Defeat. Cnut the Great dominates Scandinavia; Battle of Boknafjorden (1028) Kingdom of Norway: Erling Skjalgsson Victory. Death of Erling Skjalgsson; Cnut's invasion of ...
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 Royal Navy seized any ships arriving from Axis-controlled Europe. The United Kingdom and Canada initially laid plans to occupy points of ...
Invasion of Norway (1940) Battle of Drøbak Sound (1940) Battle of Midtskogen (1940) Battle of Dombås (1940) Åndalsnes landings (1940) Namsos Campaign (1940) Battle of Vinjesvingen (1940) Battle of Hegra Fortress (1940) Battles of Narvik (1940) Battle of Gratangen (1940) Operation Juno (1940) Pacific War. German attacks on Nauru (1940)
1263: Greenland then becomes crown dependency of Norway. 1355: In 1355 union king Magnus IV of Sweden and Norway (Magnus VII of Norway; The Swedish king had been crowned king of Norway through birthright) sent a ship (or ships) to Greenland to inspect its Western and Eastern Settlements. Sailors found settlements entirely Norse and Christian.
Erik the Red's Land (Norwegian: Eirik Raudes Land) was the name given by Norwegians to an area on the coast of eastern Greenland occupied by Norway in the early 1930s. It was named after Erik the Red, the founder of the first Norse or Viking settlements in Greenland in the 10th century.
Both Britain and Germany realized the strategic location; both made plans to invade Norway, regardless of Norwegian opposition. The Germans struck first and invaded Norway on 9 April 1940 in the so called operation "Weserübung". After furious battles with Norwegian and British forces, Germany prevailed and controlled the country until the end ...
[18] Norway was vital to Germany as a transport route for iron ore from Sweden, a supply that the United Kingdom was determined to stop. One British plan was to go through Norway and occupy cities in Sweden. [a] [b] An Allied invasion was ordered on 12 March, and the Germans intercepted radio traffic setting 14 March as deadline for the ...