Bruns started talking about his expectations for the rest of the week. He says that we should be starting our Cold War presentation. I haven’t yet started it, but maybe I will look at it tonight. I think for this project I’m going to try out prezi.
Then he talked about our opportunity for extra credit message board post. I started it last night and I’m going to finish it tonight probably.
Then Italy finished their presentation.
-Italy’s military was viewed as weak because they didn’t have a good leader and they had very poor equipment. They weren’t weak because of the troops it was because of the power struggle. They didn’t have any aircraft carriers. The soldiers didn’t really have any idea of what they were fighting for. Italy was seen as weak and that is why they wanted to invade.
The king ordered Mussolini to be arrested in order to sign the armistice. Mussolini was captured and executed on April 28, 1945. The German troops were in control of Italy and they controlled it. It was really tough to fight them. Italy was later freed from the Nazis. The Italian government is very unstable. They had a new leader pretty much every year.
We decided to invade there after Africa because we thought they were weak. It was very hard to fight because of the German army. Then Italy finally surrendered.
Then we moved onto the spying game.
-Nancy Wake was a Britain Spy. She was nicknamed the white mouse by the Germans because she ran around a lot and they could never find her. She wanted to become a spy because she saw what the Nazi’s did to the Jews and she wanted to help stop that. She married this guy and six months later he was killed because he was captured and they wanted information on Nancy. When she was in the resistance she was always in danger because people were looking for her. She became the number one on the most wanted list. Britain thought it was too dangerous for her to be in France. She tried six times to get back to Britain, but she got caught. Then she got out because someone lied for her and said it wasn’t the right lady and she was sent free.
-Navajo code talkers
In 1918 there were code talkers and they were Navajo speakers. They were Indians who could speak both English and Navajo. When Hitler found out about the language he sent people to learn it, but it was to hard to figure out. They finally figured it out about two years later and then the U.S. totally switched it and started naming like tanks and machine guns random names. At Iwo Jima they played a big part and they sent out hundreds of messages and there were only six of them. They said that if it wasn’t for them they wouldn’t have taken Iwo Jima.
-Klaus Fuchs was another spy and he worked on bombs a lot. He worked in Germany but he had to flee to England. He worked on the Hydrogen bomb. He worked for the British on their atomic bomb. He told some people in Russia and later he got transported to the U.S. He worked on the Manhattan project, which was the project for the first atomic bomb. Then he was tried and convicted for fourteen years. Nine years later he went back to Germany.
Ultra was the code name for Great Britain breaking Germany’s code. It was considered more important than the highest security classification. In 1940 the first code was cracked. It would take about a week just to crack one code. The Bombe was used to break the code. The receiver sent the combination in decipher mode.
The Enigma machine was used to crack codes. They would type up random letters and it would translate them into an actual sentence.
The Bombe was what Great Britain used to intercept the Enigma machine. The Bombe came from the Pre-war Polish Bombe. By the end of the war only two were like found, but there were like 90 of them.
Tokyo Rose was a generic name that was given to spies. It was given to spies of American descent. Iva Toguri D’Aquino was convicted of treason for propaganda broadcasting 7th American. She was radio broadcasting messages that made them homesick. She would play songs that would make them miss home and she was doing this on purpose to try and bring the troops down.
Magic was used by the U.S. to break Japanese’s diplomatic message. They would intercept it, decipher it, translate it, and then evaluate it. The Cipher machine was used to decode the messages and it was like the Enigma and Bombe machine.
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