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The Spying Game
--also known as espionage
--obtaining info about an enemy
--Takeo Yoshikawa-naval recruit in Hawaii, scouted out Pearl Harbor, didnt know what was going to happen but when he found out he burned all evidence, blamed for attack after war b/c without him attack wouldnt have happened
--Reinhard Gehlen-gave all info on Russians in return for freedom for him and comrades
--Morris Cohen-American that provided info for soviets, caught but exchanged for a british spy
--many people hired to interrogate POWs- multi-lingual
--American Japanese placed in internment camps to keep from being spies, many died b/c of bad medical care
--Enigma Machine-coding machine which sent messages through network, started in Germany, allies able to decode
--ULTRA and bomb--code name given to intercepting and interpreting German code, broke code from enigma machine
--Magic-code name for intercepting massages in Pacific
Yalta Conference
--held in resort town of Yalta(now in Ukraine)
--Rooselvelt, Churchill and Stalin
--Feb 4-11
--plan to divide up Germany; kept secret until end of war
--USSR secretly agreed to enter war against Japan within 3 months of Germany's surrender, gained land
Potsdam Conference
--1945
--Pres. Truman
--just found out about testing the atomic bomb
--set up four zones in Germany
--break up Nazi party
--Nazi war criminals trials
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