"Windtalkers" Questions

American History 10- Chapter 25 “Windtalkers” Questions

Directions: Answer the questions while watching scenes from “Windtalkers”

Scene 4

1. Who are these people being sworn in to the military?

2. Why did they use Navajo as the code language in WWII?

Scene 6

3. Why is this drill necessary?

4. Summarize the message

Scene 8

5. Units were segregated before and during much of WWII until President Truman desegregated the military.  What does this scene tell you about the different attitudes toward diversity in the American military?

6. How are the troops depicted when they got their mission?

Scene 11

7. How would you describe Saipan geographically?

8. Describe the battle there.

Scene 13

9. Why is the message important?

10. When the Japanese are intercepting the code, what problem do they have?

11. What result occurs because the message gets through?

Scene 17

12. What happens here and why?

Scene 21

13. “You were right Joe, I do look like a nip…”- What is Ben Yazee (the Navajo code talker) prepared to do when he makes this statement?

14. Why does he need to do it? (Joe Anders, played by Nick Cage, objects but the superior officer says it is the right thing to do)

15. Why does Joe Anders go with him?

16. What do they accomplish together?

Scene 31

17. Explain- Ox- “I can’t let them take us.”  Whitehorse- “What are you talking about?”

18. When Ox dies, what is Anders added responsibility?

19. Why do the Japanese not kill Whitehorse?

20. Why does Anders throw a grenade at White Horse?

21. What is the main point of the movie?