Hollywood
Before the US was involved in World War Two, many people were convinced that the movies that were being made were pro-British and pro-interventionists. So the messages that the films were sending out was, that Hitler will soon come over to the US and start taking the Jews. After they saw this many people started to get worried and turn their hate for the Nazis into way much more. After Pearl Harbor was hit Warner Brothers then copywrited many movie titles like: Sunday in Hawaii, Yellow Peril, and V for Victory. Most of the movies that were being produced at this time were about the war, and combat during the war. Some of the movies that were premiered during the World War 2 were Casablanca, Mission in Moscow, Air Force, Destination Tokyo, Flying Tigers, Guadalcanal Diary, Objective, Burma!, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, and Wake Island. Most of these movies/ documentaries were to inform the people about what was going on in the war at this time.
Bob Hope or know as Leslie Townes Hope. Bob was born in Britain on May 29, 1903. Bob and his family passed through Ellis Island and came to America when he was 5. Then on Bob was soon as an American Comedian, actor, author and golfer. Bob appeared on the radio, Broadway, and in the movies. He also worked with the US Arm Forces and United Services Organization. During his long career he was honored for his humanitarian work.
I think that Hollywood played a very big part in the United State’s involvement in the World War 2. The movies showing bad things about the Germans and putting the hate for the Germans in the viewers’ minds. Also Bob Hope had a lot to do with the World War 2. He entertained a lot of the military soldiers during the war.
Intelligence Gathering----- Ultra/Magic
During the war the western powers (but mainly the British) decoded and read important parts of the Germans top secret message traffic. When the Allied Forces received this information it was a key point to their victory over Germany. They called this cryptographic Ultra. Starting to break their codes all started with the Polish secret services. The poles copied the Germans basic enciphering machines. This made it easy then to decode the Germans messages. After Britain guaranteed Poland their independence the Poles passed on what that had had so far to the British, then on the British and French continued to work on decoding the messages. British cryptanalysts finally broke some codes.
Magic was a cryptanalysis project during the World War 2 for the Allied Forces. Magic was put together to bring together the US government's crypto logic capabilities and the Research Bureau. Intelligence officers from the Navy, Army, and later civilians came together. They worked on ciphers, codes and Red, Blue and Purple.
Red- A navy officer once stole a Secret Operating Code codebook. It belonged to the Japanese Naval Forces during the WW1. The pictures that were of the codebooks were given to a cryptanalysts to be worked with. The folder they kept these photos in was red so it was called the Red code.
Blue- Blue was another complicated code used by the Japanese. But this code was also broke fast by the Research Bureau.
Purple- Germany then advanced their ciphering so that the codebreakers could not decipher them. It was talked purple because when you mix red and blue together you get purple. Now purple was a lot hard to decode for the US. The codes were very mixed up and complicated. They realized they couldn’t decode them by hand. Soon they started to decode them but by the time they were done it was too late.
I think that the US was one step ahead of the Axis Forces on the codes. When we decoded their first codes with the Poles that was a huge break through. After that the American code breakers were top notch at what they did with decoding the Red and Blue Codes. But when it came to the Purple codes they struggled. Now these days everything is so technical, it makes things back then seem to difficult.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/ww2/wartimehollywood.html
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/ww2/combatfilms.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope
http://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-ultra-the-misunderstood-allied-secret-weapon.htm
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Well done Hannah!