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Quiet Fellow
1. Why was America keeping secrets from the Soviet
Union when they were allies? You can look back to the
“Enormoz” chapter if you need help.
Disappearing Scientists
2. What made Los Alamos the perfect place to build an
atomic bomb lab?
Chicago Pile
3. What was so significant about the experiment?
Busting Codes and Foreign Agents
Despite US Secretary of State Henry Stimson’s oft-quoted
comment that “gentlemen do not read each other’s mail,” by
1941, the United States had built a world-class intelligence
capability.
After World War I, American intelligence efforts focused on
code breaking and counterintelligence operations against
Germany and Japan. The “Black Chamber” under Herbert
Yardley, the Army’s Signal Intelligence Service under William
Friedman, and Navy cryptanalysts cracked Tokyo’s
diplomatic encryption systems. Working backward from
intercepts, Friedman’s team figured out what kind of cipher
device Japanese used – the “Purple” machine. This
intelligence allowed the FBI to launch an extremely effective
counterintelligence attack on German and Japanese
espionage and sabotage operations in the Western
Hemisphere in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
U.S. operatives infiltrated espionage networks and arrested
dozens of foreign agents. Unfortunately, the FBI had less
success against Soviet efforts to penetrate US government
and economic institutions.
FDR Creates OSS in WW II
With the United States’ entry into World War II seemingly
inevitable, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the first
peacetime, civilian intelligence agency in 1941 – the Office
of the Coordinator of Information. This office was designed to
organize the activities of several agencies.
Shortly after that, the United States suffered its most costly
intelligence disaster when the Japanese bombed Pearl
Harbor on December 7, 1941. That intelligence failure –
which was the result of analysis misconceptions, collection
gaps, bureaucratic confusion, and careful Japanese denial
and deception – led to the establishment of a larger and
more diversified agency in 1942: the Office of Strategic
Services, the forerunner of today’s Central Intelligence
Agency.
4/ 13 VOCAB CHALLENGE
STATION 1: Circle Maps (5 Words in each circle minimum)
What helped me figure this
out?
What helped me figure this
out?
STATION 2: Charades
For each word, come up with a charade that will allow the class to guess which word you
are acting out. After you practice your charade, write a 3-sentence description of what
you will be acting out:
Word 1:
Word 2:
STATION 3: Excellent Vocab Sentences
For each word, write an excellent vocab sentence that would allow someone who does
not know what the word means to accurately guess the definition.
Each sentence must:
Use the word in the sentence
Have clues that would allow a student to guess the meaning
Be grammatically correct
2 Examples:
Word: Infuriating
Definition: Making someone extremely angry
Excellent Sentence: The test was infuriating because the teacher expected us to know
all the answers even though he never taught us any of the information!
Word: Elite
Definition: The best or most skilled part of a group
Excellent Sentence: We only send the most elite soldiers on covert operations because
those are the hardest assignments and the ones that we need most to succeed.
Word 1:
Word 2:
STATION 4: Synonyms and Antonyms
For each word, write 5 words that have a similar meaning to the vocab word and 5
words that have an opposite meaning to the word. Then, circle one word from each
group that you think is the BEST synonym and antonym for each word.
Word 1:
Synonym: Antonym:
1. 1.
2. 2.
3. 3.
4. 4.
5. 5.
Word 2:
Synonym: Antonym:
1. 1.
2. 2.
3. 3.
4. 4.
5. 5.
4/12 Do Now:
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Operation Gunnerside
4. Why couldn’t the Allies just bomb the Vemork heavy
water plant to destroy it?
Saboteurs of Telemark Reflection
4/14 Do Now:
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High Concentration
5. Why were the glasses so important to the worker?
The Gadget
6. You are now spies and it is your job to write a report
summarizing the key steps to the workings of an atom
bomb and hydrogen bomb, including a sketched
diagram of the process with accurate labeling. You will
be assessed on their use of technical vocabulary,
consistent formal tone, and organization of the report.
