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Scholarly article in Journal of Sichuan Normal University (Social Sciences Edition), no. 1, 2017
In 1946 the Truman administration formally proposed buying Greenland — most often reported as an offer of $100 million in gold — driven by Cold War strategic concerns about Arctic bases and air routes...
The most substantiated figure available in the provided material is that a major White House renovation project beginning in 2010 was estimated at approximately , a multi-year overhaul of heating, coo...
never owned as sovereign territory either during or afterward; instead it assumed responsibility for the island’s defense, established military bases there during the war, maintained a presence into ,...
proposed paying $100 million (specifically suggested as in gold) for in 1946, a secret initiative rooted in strategic concerns; Denmark did not accept and the idea faded into a historical footnote tha...
Several U.S. presidents have tried to buy territory or land — most famously Thomas Jefferson with the Louisiana Purchase and Andrew Johnson with Alaska — while others have proposed purchases (or engag...
’ strategic interest in began as a wartime necessity and imperative—peaking with a secret 1946 offer to buy the island and formalized U.S. defense roles under ’s 1951 treaty commitments—and has since ...