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We aren't sure but we have estimated that about 400 Navajo men served as code talkers for the U.S. marine corps.
There are 4 Navajo code talkers that are still alive today. Their names are Thomas H. Begay, John Kinsel Jr., Samuel Sandoval, and Peter MacDonald Sr. They are all over 90 years old.
The Japanese Military cracked their code and they stopped using it.

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Code talkers were very important in the war so here are some facts about them!

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5. Guess What... Yup EVEN MOREEEE INFORMATION

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5. Guess What... Yup EVEN MOREEEE INFORMATION

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Gerda and her mother got arrested by Swiss guards and got held overnight. The next day, they were put on a train with other refugees and none of them told them where they were going or what was going to happen to them. Gerda was interned in a refugee camp in Switzerland for two years, then she worked in Bern in a blouse factory until the end of the war. She immigrated to the United States in 1949 and luckily survived the holocaust.

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Gerda and her mother dressed up as farm women and drove in a wagon past the German border patrol so they could farm on the French-Swiss border. They walked down a small ravine, crossed a stream and then slipped under a barbed-wire fence that marked the official border.

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They got visas to Cuba and left Hamburg on May 13, 1939. They arrived at Cuba on the 27th and they got told their visas were invalid. They got denied entry and had to go back to Europe.

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Gerda walked through the city to see the aftermath of a pogrom when she saw that the windows of the Jewish shops had been shattered. Gerda begged her parents to leave Germany, and months later they finally did.

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Gerda Blachmann was an only child with her Jewish parents living in Breslau. Her father worked as a salesman for a large hardware and building materials company.

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In Hiroshima the bomb was called "Little Boy" and in Nagasaki it was called "Fat Man".
In Hiroshima the city was chosen to be bombed because it was a large port city with an army base, and it had not been severely damaged. In Nagasaki it was not an ideal target because there was an Allies Pow camp nearby. Thick haze made them switch sites. Nagasaki was the home to weapons production.

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In Hiroshima the bomb was made out of uranium and in Nagasaki it was made from plutonium, so it was more powerful.
In Hiroshima 135,000 people died yet in Nagasaki 70,000 people died.

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We had spent so much money that we wanted to test them.
Some believe the USA wanted to show the world how powerful we were.

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Americans thought the Japanese would never surrender.
Over half a million American soldiers would've died had we invaded Japan.

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Japan attacked our military base, but our code breakers knew and we launched a surprise attack.
Huge loss for Japan. {4 aircraft carriers.}

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Midway island is in between Japan and the U.S.
This island was important to Japan.
It was the turning point in the war in the Pacific.

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People at dead - 6 million Jews died due to use of comp deadly gas - the first time there was a use of gas.
2 camps that were called either death camps or concentration camps.
January 27 is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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They placed a flag on a hill. It was a famous photo, sculpture.

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After 36 days of fierce fighting, the U.S. took took the island.
Navajo code talkers were a large part of our victory.

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1st day 30,000 U.S. marines landed.
The 1st soldiers weren't attacked.
Japanese soldiers were hiding in tunnels.

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The island is 750 miles away from Tokyo.
It was strategic so the U.S. could land and take off when attacking Japan.

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Here are some facts about Gerda Blachmann from the Holocaust.

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The holocaust began in 1933 and ended in 1945, May 8.

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The battle was almost cancelled because of bad weather.
1st wave was paratroopers and they had to land in the pitch black night.
2nd wave was thousands of bombs that were dropped on Germany.
The main invasion was six thousand ships carrying troops and supplies.

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Normandy is in France and the battle was started on June 6, 1944 and ended on August 30, 1944.

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If it weren't for the cold and starvation Russia would've never surrendered.

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The battle took place in the last part of 1942 and early 1943.
Germany bombed Stalingrad and the city was in rubble.
The Russians trapped the Germans in the city and hid from them even in the sewers because they knew their city so well.

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Stalingrad brought to life in colour as Russia marks 75 years

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Colourised photos show devastating and decisive Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943) in new, deeply vivid light The pictures depict Russian artillery, German prisoners of war and the devastation wreaked upon the city The gruesome, five-month-long battle saw more than two million die from shelling, starvation and cold Russia's push-back against the Wehrmacht forced them from the Caucasus and set in motion the end of war A striking collection of colourised photographs from the Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943) reveal the intense brutality of one of the Second World War's most pivotal military events.

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Stalingrad is in Russia (South West) by the Volga River.

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The entire attack was just under 2 hours.
It happened on a Sunday morning.

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Today there is a memorial where the USS Arizona sank.
Japan sent a report that they were going to declare war, but we didn't get it.

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Here is some fun facts about the attack on Pearl Harbor!

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The next day we declared war on Japan.

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12 ships were destroyed and only 3 of them were not rebuilt. The 3 not rebuilt were the USS Arizona, USS Utah, and the USS Oklahoma. The USS Arizona was our biggest loss.

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Japanese Planes Bomb Pearl Harbor, USS Arizona Explodes & Sinks

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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a complete surprise. There was 2 waves of attacks.

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The attack on Pearl Harbor was on December 7, 1941 in Oahu, Hawaii.

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This piece covers the famous "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy" speech given by President Roosevelt on December 8th, 1941. Teachable Moments are short films that provide a quick overview of important topics and events from the Roosevelt Era.

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Lastly, the leader of Russia at that time was Joseph Stalin.

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The leader of the United States at that time was Franklin Roosevelt

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The leader of France at that time was Charles de Gualle.

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Great Britain was being ruled by Winston Churchill at that time.

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In the war there were allies and here's who they were!

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The leader of Japan of that time was Emperor Hirohito.

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The leader of Italy at that time was Benito Mussolini.

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The ruler of Germany at the time was Adolf Hitler.

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Here were the Axis Powers of WW2.

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The Great Depression was economic hardships leading to an unstable government.

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Fascism is a government controlled by a dictator due to economic turmoil.

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Japan had to invade other areas for resources in order to survive.

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The Treaty was one of many of the causes of WW2, here's what happened because of it.
1. Germany had to pay high fines.
2. Germany could not rebuild their armed forces.
3. Germany lost land.
4. Lastly, Germany was in ruins.
You can tell that Germany didn't have a good time at all during/before the war.

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These are all the causes of WW2, I hope you enjoy!