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Navajo Indians were one of the determining factors in the United States victory over Japan in WWII.
The United States and Navajo Indians’ problems began to escalate in the late 1860s. In order to force the Navajo off their land, U. ... At Fort Sumner, the Navajo were treated as the Jews in Nazi Germany concentration camps. ... No contribution from any soldier would make as big of an impact as the Navajo Code Talkers in World War II. ... Johnston, having served as a Navajo translator to his parents in missionaries in the south, at a young age, knew that it was almost impossible for an adult to successfully acquire. ... Johnston knew that the key to a rapid, accurate, and secret communication was to use the Navajo language, and use none other than the Navajos themselves. The Navajo language is so isolated, only an estimated thirty people outside of the tribe knew the language as of 1940. ...
Johnston had successfully presented his idea of the formation of a Navajo code that in April of 1942, marine recruiters were sent to Navajo reservations in search of candidates. ... Sadly, for the success of the Navajo code, education for the Navajos was poor and few Navajo knew how to speak English. ...
The Navajo’s first task was to develop a code for 211 words, and written documents to record those words were forbidden.
Approximate Word count = 1124
Approximate Pages = 4.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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