Sparking a global conflict
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Turning tides and lasting legacies
YOUR GOAL
Master of The Second World War
tester Radio detection and ranging technology gave Allied forces an early warning system against enemy air raids.
tester Native American Marines used their complex, unwritten language to transmit secure tactical messages across the Pacific.
tester Decode secret military messages to discover how Allied codebreakers shortened the Second World War.
Unbreakable code: The Navajo language has no written alphabet, making the military code based on it impossible to translate without native speakers.
A secret or disguised way of writing. In 1940, British cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park successfully cracked the German military's Enigma ciphers.
What was the codename for the intelligence obtained by decrypting high-level Axis communications?
How many Navajo men were originally recruited in 1942 to develop the military code?
What was the name of the complex cipher machine used by the German military during World War II?
Which life-saving antibiotic was mass-produced starting in 1943 to treat Allied battlefield casualties?
Which Native American language was used to create an unbreakable code in the Pacific theater?
Who was the British mathematician who designed the electromechanical 'Bombe' to crack the Enigma machine?
What was the name of Britain's coastal radar network that detected incoming German aircraft in 1940?