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Our American Stories

When "Neutral" America Occupied "Neutral" Iceland During WWII

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, Iceland's strategic location made it difficult to remain neutral during World War II. Here’s the History Guy with the story.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.5

Adventure should never come with a pause button.

0:07.1

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0:08.4

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0:11.1

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:13.9

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

0:17.4

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company

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he built.

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Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.

0:27.3

And then boom, it's everywhere.

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And that was that moment.

0:30.7

Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:44.7

No. or wherever you get your podcast. This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories,

0:49.1

the show where America is the star and the American people.

0:53.6

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0:56.1

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0:59.8

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1:03.0

Up next, the story comes to us from a man

1:05.6

who's simply known as the History Guy.

1:08.6

His videos are watched by hundreds of thousands of people of all ages on YouTube.

1:14.2

The History Guy is also a regular contributor for us here at Our American Stories.

1:19.8

Iceland's strategic location made it difficult to remain neutral during the events of World War II.

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