A decorated World War I veteran, Adolf Hitler assumed power of the National Socialist German Workers Party, or Nazis for short, in July of 1921. With his radical ideas and extremist views, Adolf Hitler had a plan not only for his Germany, but also for the world as a whole. He envisioned his supreme race of purebred Aryans to control on a global scale. While one might wonder why such a man was voted into office, Hitler was actually very popular. He gained popularity among the German common folk by promoting nationalism, anti-Semitic and anti-communistic views and used propaganda to its fullest. It isn’t until 1933 that Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by president Paul von Hindenburg. Shortly thereafter Hitler gained more support from his fellow citizens after the German Reichstag was burnt to the ground, and communists were blamed for the actions. Germany as a whole now had a rallying cry, and after Hindenburg died in 1934, Adolf Hitler appointed himself the “Fürher”, or leader, of Nazi …show more content…
Johnston was raised as the son of a Protestant missionary who stationed his family on a Navajo reservation in southern California. He also happened to be one of the few, non-Navajo that could understand and speak their native language. The Navajo language was very hard to pick up on and consisted of no alphabet. At the time the United States entered the war, Johnston realized that he could use what he had learned at such a young age to benefit an entire country. Early in 1942, Phillip Johnston arranged a meeting with Major General Clayton B. Vogel, to introduce this idea of using the Navajo people as code talkers. After seeing Johnston’s presentation of the power the code held, General Vogel and his staff immediately requested that the United States Marine Corps recruit 200 Navajos. From here on out, the code talkers would be used by all six Marine divisions in every assault the U.S. Marines carried out in the Pacific Theater from