Today Zach O continued his presentation. Nick and I, our project is on a flash drive and it is not there today. WEIRD !!!
We dropped an Atomic Bomb on August 6, 1945. This attack was known as the Manhattan Project and it killed 90,000- 166,000 people on this first day and many thousands died the next day. This made sense because where we dropped it was a main supply line and that was a big deal if this whole thing went as planned. The decision to save millions of American lives. The surrender of Japan happened on August 15, 1945 after we dropped both Atomic bombs. Roosevelt’s Plan was good, it happened without warning and unrestricted. Imperial Japanese Navy did not attack the US with submarines; they only used them for RADAR. The USS Indianapolis was carrying the Atomic Bomb and was sunk a day after dropping off the Atomic Bomb. Commerce Raiding was the use of naval forces to destroy the supply line of an enemy on the open sea, rather than engaging the combatants themselves. Major Battles in the Pacific Front:
The Battle of Midway, The Battle for the Coral Sea, The Battle for Iwo Jima, The Battle for Guadall Canal, and The Battle for the Philippines. Japan was never the same after the Battle of Midway. The Battle for the Coral Sea was a key victory for the US and that is considered a small turning point in the war. Japan took control of the Philippines during WWII and we took the Philippines back towards the end of the war. Island Hoping is crossing an ocean by a series of shorter journeys between islands, and opposed to a single journey directly across the ocean to the final destination. After the Battle of Midway, the US established a line overlapping island bases as well as air control. The US needed to take key islands near Japan so that they could bomb Japan and immediately land back on an island for safety.
April and Ashley started their presentation today. Here is their information
The Spying Game:
Cryptography:
Cryptography is the Practice of studying and hiding information. It was used in WW II to pass special messages to another country without it being intercepted. Codenames are magic, Bombe, and Purple. Funny names ha. Ultra and Magic are the most important codenames for this. Magic was an allied machine and it was used for a project directed towards Japan. This machine was used to figure out what was going to be done by the Japanese. Purple was a Japanese Machine that would send the information for hopefully only Japanese people to be able to understand. This machine would take a message and turn it into a code. The receiving machine could only translate under certain settings. Bombe was a British code machine that would try to decode German messages. Enigma was invented by a German engineer and British and American code breakers were able to break large numbers of codes. It was like a typewriter. You type a message into the machine and it would change the message into a code and send it out.
Navajo Code Talkers:
Native Americans who served in the US army were used as part of the Code talkers. Main job of the Native Americans were used to decode the Navajo language. Other than Navajo’s, nobody really knows the language. This code could have easily been broken but the Navajo language was not written down and was very hard to learn.
Klaus Fuchs:
Klaus Fuchs gave the Soviet Union information from the United States and Great Britain. He knew information about the Atomic Bomb and was sent to build the Atomic Bomb in 1943. In 1945, he was claimed to be part of a private spying ring and shared information. He denied being a spy until 1950, and in 1950, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison. In 1950, he lost his British Citizenship.
Tokyo Rose:
A radio show that had 12 different girls who would tell about the war and what was going on during about this time. She was an American citizen being forced to be part of this plan.
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