Vocabulary
Military Training
The Code
World War II and After
Ms. Menifee's Picks
100

Packaged food that was prepared for soldiers during military combat for survival when soldiers could not eat in a hall or kitchen.

What is a c-ration

100
The city where the Navajo Indians were sent for Marine Corps training.
What is San Diego?
100
True or False: The Navajo's created the code at Boot Camp.
What is false.
100
What year did WWII end?
What is 1945?
100

A nickname for a Marine

Leatherneck

200
very tiring
What is exhausting?
200
One way that the Marine Corps training clashed with Navajo traditions.
What is shaving off their hair or looking in the eyes of drill instructors?
200
One reason the Navajo code could not be taken off Marine Corps camps.
What is the code could be found out; there would be evidence of the code?
200

During WWII what type of sacrifice did fathers make for their sons who were killed during the war?

What is cut off the index finger and send it to the Emperor?

200
The reason the Navajo children could not speak their language at their schools.
What is to help the children learn English better.
300
words sent or delivered from one person or group to another
What is messages?
300
The number of Navajos that originally completed boot camp. (within 10 of the actual answer)
What is 29?
300
The person whose idea it was to use the Navajo language to create a code.
What is Philip Johnston?
300
The technology that the Code Talkers used to transmit their messages.
What is the radio?
300

U.S President during WWII

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

400

The main character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie or text.

Who is the protagonist?

400
True or False: The Navajo Code Talkers knew their mission before they left for training camp.
What is false?
400
Since the code could not be taken off military property, the Code Talkers had to _________ the code.
What is memorize?
400

This person realized he was losing the war and surrendered on August 6, 1945.

Who is Emperor Hirohito?

400
A reason that the Marines kept the Navajo Code a secret.
What is in case they needed to use it again?
500

A nuclear weapon with destructive force

Atomic bomb

500
The place where the Code Talkers came from.
What is a reservation?
500
One way the code talkers continued to make the code more difficult to figure out throughout the war.
What is they added more words. (It started at 200 and reached 600 by the end)
500
The key battle that the Code Talkers played a key role in winning.
What is Iwo Jima?
500

This soldier was shot in the neck and thought to be dead

Who is Georgia Boy?

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