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Quiet Fellow1. 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 Scientists2. What made Los Alamos the perfect place to build an

atomic bomb lab?

Chicago Pile3. What was so significant about the experiment?

Busting Codes and Foreign AgentsDespite 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 IIWith 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 CHALLENGESTATION 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: InfuriatingDefinition: Making someone extremely angryExcellent 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: EliteDefinition: The best or most skilled part of a groupExcellent 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:

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Antonym:

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Word 2:

Synonym: Antonym:

1. 1.

2. 2.

3. 3.

4. 4.

5. 5.

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Operation Gunnerside4. Why couldn’t the Allies just bomb the Vemork heavy

water plant to destroy it?

Saboteurs of Telemark Reflection

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High Concentration5. Why were the glasses so important to the worker?

The Gadget6. 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.