Battles of World War II
Across
- 1. Britain and France join armies and the French troops waited for the Germans to attack and the German troops waited for the French to attack
- 3. City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb
- 4. Britian forces use radar and light to warn against enemies.
- 5. 1942 April, more than 70,000 filipino and americans surrendered to the Japanese
- 9. An attack by the Japanese Aircraft to America on December 7, 1941
- 11. allied forces invade a small island, Okinawa, 12,000 Americans die fighting over 100,000 Japanese troops.
- 13. Japanese and Americans first met in battle together
- 14. British, French, Belgian and Dutch Armed forces were trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk while being bombed and strafed by the Luftwaffe.
- 15. German forces were defeated in their attempt to capture an industrial port
- 18. on the swamp-and-jungle-covered island near Australia
- 19. code name for the Allied invasion of mainland Europe in WWII
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- 2. was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union
- 6. World War 2 naval battle fought in the pacific
- 7. Battle over this island and runways needed by the U.S. to use in air attacks against Japan.
- 8. was the name given to the Allied invasion of French North Africa
- 10. This war was one of the last before the surrender of Germany.
- 12. German term meaning "lightning war", used to describe Germany's novel military tactics in World War II
- 16. Where German troops laid siege to the Soviet city of Leningrad until over 1 million civilians would perish during the siege.
- 17. The first raid conducted by the U.S against Tokyo in April 1942