Letters from Iwo Jima

codes. Many Japanese code breakers were educated in the U.S., so they knew some English. As a result to these U.S. battle plans were found out leading to many American deaths. The Navajo Indians changed this completely. (Wilsont) Navajos came from the southwest 1,000 or more years ago. Their language links them with the Alaskan people of Alaska. Navajos arrived in a place bounded by four sacred mountains. This area was known as Four Corners area. It’s where New Mexico, Utah, Colorado,

were attempted often, however, when strived, the translation was disrupted by German Militia trying to acquire information about American troops’ location and battle plans. During World War II, The United States allied forces utilized American Indians from the Navajo tribe, to hypothesize, fabricate, and execute, a government cipher for communicating between military forces that would remain undecipherable until legally released by military officials. An armoured base in Louisiana was attempting to use

Meaning and Identity in Public Art While visiting the Capitol Square, I felt like I had stepped back into an ancient Greek culture. From the colossal pillars supporting the building to the bronze statues of Greek goddesses among our "war heroes" it is easy to mistake the Capitol building for a Greek temple. I want to share with you what the architecture communicated to me, what the subject of the art was that I observed, and why the building was placed where it now stands. Anyone who

These bombs had capabilities like none other, and many were hesitant of the creation of them. Some scientists who worked on the atomic bombs wrote a letter to the President at the time, Harry Truman, warning him of the bombs and suggesting that a demonstration of the bombs are given to Japan(Doc 1). This shows how dangerous and unnecessary the use of the bombs were as even the scientists who built the

tunnels, pill boxes (or miniature above ground bunkers) and just into the ground in general. The Japanese’s main tactic against the Americans artillery and ground forces was to hide out beneath the ground, safe from the artillery and hidden from the troops. As soon as the bombardment from the battleships ceased, strafes of planes began swarming the island, hammering it with machine gun fire. Then, as

Throughout time the need for an efficient way transmit codes were essential to success, after World War I and into the start of World War II American forces was running out of ideas for codes. The USA had always used the white’s soldiers for the code talkers because there were easy to train, and a abundance of them to choose making them the practice choose for code talkers. Until Philip Johnston, he was an initiator that worked for a Marine Corps ' program. As a kid and into his teens he grew up

Einstein, who fled from Nazi persecution, and Enrico Fermi who escaped Fascist Italy, were now living in the United States, on which they both agreed that the President should be enlightened of the vulnerability of atomic technology that was in the hands of Axis power. Fermi made an attempt and travelled to Washington in March to express his involvement with the government officials, who showed little to no concern. Einstein who as well shared a great concern in this topic; penned a letter to President

researching 4 famous battles from WW2 eg. Operation Overlord, Iwo Jima, Battle of the Bulge, Pearl Harbour, Guadalcanal, Midway, Stalingrad. Create a timeline of at least ten New Zealand disasters. E.g. Wahine disaster, Tangiwai disaster, Mount Erebus. Include dates, loss of lives, any significant points of interest. Present in an interesting way. Imagine you were onboard the Wahine. Write a number of diary entries over the hours you were onboard or write a letter to your parents expressing what

few months later, while Truman was attending Potsdam, The weapon was successfully tested"(Air power history pg.56). "President Harry S Truman" had a lot of decision-making to make. He would have to depend on the information that was getting to him from his war advisors furthermore, he wasn’t sure the decision he had to make, would be an easy one for him to make. But he knew he had to drop the bomb on Hiroshima. The destructive force was more than any human had ever seen before. Hiroshima was devastated

the Nuremberg laws. These laws deprived Jews of their right to German citizenship and attempted to demolish any relationships with Jews and “non-Jews”. It was clear that these actions were Hitler’s attempts to further cut any Jewish population away from Germany. However, in a speech he made during a German parliament session, he claimed that these acts would only help the Jews by creating "a level ground on which the German people may find a tolerable relation with the Jewish people"(Hitler), therefore