Unit 6 Bletchley Park

Watch part 1. Breaking the code Tick the topics that are discusses
 A German device that sent Morse code in code
 The location of Bletchley Park
 The machine that cracked the Enigma code
 Arranging codebreaking courses that students could attend
 Alan Turing’s research at Princeton University
 The next steps in the process – once a message had been deciphered
 Confidentiality among the codebreakers at Bletchley Park
 Early examples of code being used in conflict

Watch part 2. Colossus. Choose the correct answer

1. Who was Lorenz used by in the Second World War?
2. What operating error was made by the Germans?
3. Once Bletchley had intercepted the message, how long was it until the research
section understood completely how Lorenz worked?
4. Who actually worked out how Lorenz worked?
5. What was the problem with Heath Robinson machine?
6. How was Tommy Flower’s Colossus different to the Heath Robinson’s
machine?
7. Once the war was over, the British didn’t reveal that they had broken Enigma
and Lorenz because….
8. What happened to Tommy Flowers?
9. Colossus wasn’t reconstructed until…..