Technology
Navajo Code Talkers
Communications
Espionage
Important Facts
100
The name of the first tank made.
What is Little Willie?
100
The person who started using the Navajo language as a code.
Who is Philip Johnston?
100
The machine that the Germans used to code and decode their messages.
What is the Enigma Machine?
100
The definition of Espionage.
What is the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information?
100
A new medicine developed during WWII.
What is Penicillin?
200
Technology that uses radio waves to detect enemy aircrafts.
What is Radar?
200
The round about number of Navajos that participated in the code talker program.
What is 400?
200
The machine used to break the German Enigma codes.
What is the Bombe?
200
The name the CIA was formerly known as during WWII.
What is the OSS?
200
What is Cluster Bomb?
300
The most important ships in the Navy during WWII.
What are aircraft carriers?
300
The number of vocabulary terms used in the initial code.
Who is211?
300
The creator of the Bombe.
Who is Alan Turning?
300
Four major countries that had spies operating during the war.
What is Britain, Germany, Soviet Union, and the U.S.?
300
Number of people that died in WWII.
What is 70-85 million people (3% of the 1940 world population) ?
400
The name of the two cities that the U.S. detonated two nuclear bombs over.
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
400
The amount of time it took to translate, transmit, and re-translate a Navajo message.
What is two and a half minutes?
400
By how many years did breaking the Enigma codes shorten the war ?
What is two years?
400
The name of Virginia Hall's prosthetic leg.
What is Cuthbert?
400
Name of the United States' famous tank.
What is the United States Sherman tank?
500
The names of the three specialized bombs used in WWII.
What are Bunker Busters, Cluster Bombs, and Atom Bombs?
500
More than 800 messages were sent by Navajo Code talkers during this invasion.
What is Iwo Jima?
500
The three inventions used by the government to broadcast propaganda.
What are motion pictures, radios, and microphones?
500
The critical tool invented by Julia Child during WWII.
What is shark repellent?
500
Name of the city that the third bomb would have been dropped on.
What is Tokyo?