Cod Wars facts
While investigating facts about Cod Warzone and Cod Wars Iceland, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Iceland's navy took on the UK, Germany and Belgium in three "Cod Wars", and won all three times with only one death
how many cold wars were there?
In the German version of CoD: World at War, all swastikas were removed and replaced with iron crosses, and all depictions of Adolf Hitler were replaced with other high ranking officers.
Cod warzone?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 22 of the best facts about Cod Wars 1970s and Cod Warzone Update I managed to collect.
what were the cod wars?
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Canada and Iceland are the only countries to have won every conflict they have been involved in, with Iceland even winning all three Cod Wars against the UK
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In 1975 Iceland threatened to close a NATO air base after a nearly 20 year long dispute with Britain over fishing grounds, in what was described as the Cod Wars
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About the "cod war" between Britain and Iceland. As British fishers took more and more of the cod from the waters near Iceland, Iceland kept expanding the fishing boundary from 3 kiles, to 4, to 12, to eventually up to 200 miles. Hostilities between the 2 grew to the extreme.
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There have been three wars between Iceland and the UK (the cod wars), Iceland won every single one
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There were 3 "Cod Wars" between the UK and Iceland over fishing rights
What is true about cod wars?
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Iceland and Great Britain were involved in a series of conflicts over fishing rights in the 70s. Called the Cod Wars, there were 0 casualties, but they did lead to the development of a new weapon, the fishing net cutter.
When were the cod wars?
In the 1950s and 1970s Iceland beat the UK for territorial fishing rights in the Atlantic known as the Cod Wars.
How did iceland win the cod wars?
During the First Cod War - a dispute between UK and Iceland over fishing rights - the British ambassador to Iceland taunted Icelandic protesters by playing bagpipe music and military marches at full blast on his gramophone.
The Cod Wars - a series of confrontations between Iceland and the UK over the right to fish for cod in certain waters. From 1940 to 1976, Iceland constantly pushed its fishing boundaries further out, sidestepping UK blockades, selling to the USSR for a time, and finally winning in ‘76.
99 years ago, World War I arrived on the shores of Cape Cod
