Cika wannan jumla:
Faduwar Denmark a watan Afrilu 1940 ta bar mulkin mallaka na Danish na Greenland wani yanki da ba a mamaye shi ba na wata ƙasa da aka mamaye, a ƙarƙashin yiwuwar kwace ta United Kingdom ko Kanada. Don hana wannan, Amurka ta yi aiki don tabbatar da matsayin Greenland. Amma, sa'ad da Amirka ta shiga yaƙin a watan Disamba na shekara ta 1941, Greenland ta shiga yaƙin.