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Thesis Statement:  The German Enigma, a cipher machine used by the Nazis in World War II, presented a seemingly unbreakable barrier to Allied forces. Enigma kept German messages encoded and therefore classified. The Enigma was a very complicated machine that was difficult to crack.  In 1939, Turing and a group of cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park  created “the bombe,” a machine that could be used to decipher the Enigma codes. In the short term, by cracking the Enigma code, Turing contributed to shortening the war and saving many lives. His work contributed to the Allies winning the war. After working at Bletchley Park, Alan Turing  became inspired and he later went on to create the Turing test and other advancements in artificial intelligence. In the long term, the A.M. Turing Award for computing is named after him. His first steps in computing and artificial intelligence have led to our modern computers.