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The nation's initially railways were being made in the 1850s, and enhanced communications and overseas trade authorized field to produce in spite of Denmark's absence of all-natural methods. Denmark's substantial colonial aspirations incorporated a number of essential investing posts in Africa and India. While the Danish colonial empire was sustained by trade with other major powers, and plantations - eventually a absence of means led to its stagnation. Denmark prospered drastically in the final decades of the 18th century owing to its neutral position allowing for it to trade with the two sides in the lots of up to date wars. Denmark remained neutral during World War I but regained the northern half of Schleswig in 1920. Danish neutrality was violated in World War II adhering to a swift German invasion in April 1940. During profession, a resistance movement emerged in 1943 when Iceland declared independence in 1944 Denmark was liberated in May 1945. In 1973, Denmark, together with Greenland but not the Faroes, turned a member of what is now the European Union, but negotiated specific decide-outs, such as retaining its individual forex, the krone. Denmark faced war versus both equally Prussia and Austrian Empire in what became acknowledged as the Second Schleswig War, lasting from February to October 1864. Denmark was defeated and obliged to cede Schleswig and Holstein to Prussia.