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Alaska was purchaed from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867, for $7.2 million ($113 million in today's dollars) at about two cents per acre ($4.74/km²). The land went through several administrative changes before becoming an organized territory on May 11, 1912, and the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959.

How would the Cold War had unfolded, let alone Allied relationships, been different had the continental US not included the northern state of Alaska?
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