60CW Crossword: Week 1

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Across
  1. 3. The research done by Germans that threatens a weapon of unprecedented destructive capabilities
  2. 6. Stalin’s insistence that the new UNSC incorporate a veto provision made FDR more ____ of cooperation with the USSR. (choices: skeptical/confident)
  3. 7. America’s defeat of the Japanese navy at the Battle of ____ in June 1942 put an end to any chance of Japan’s naval advancement toward the Western hemisphere
  4. 9. By the fall of 1940, ____ controlled much of western and central Europe and had a nonaggression treaty with the Soviet Union
  5. 12. Before his reelection, FDR maintained that he could only provide ____ aid and serve as an "arsenal of democracy", but would not be willing to spill American blood. After his reelection, FDR moved towards intervention.
Down
  1. 1. With ____ and France vulnerable, and the USSR and China on a steep decline, FDR saw a chance to elevate the US as the world's most powerful nation
  2. 2. Vladimir Lenin's rising party in Russia
  3. 4. The US' formal entry into WWII was through the ____ event against Japan (two words, no space)
  4. 5. FDR understood that the US was much stronger in terms of _____ power as compared to the 1918 Great War
  5. 8. At _____, FDR relented on issues he believed central to the establishment of a genuine and enduring postwar peace because he had no other means to compel Stalin to accept integration into the American economic order, relinquish his grip over eastern Europe, and abandon the Security Council veto
  6. 10. The Bretton Woods conference set the stage for the US to become the world ____ leader, agreeing that the USD would be the standard coinage of world trade
  7. 11. Vladimir Lenin's successor