Canadians at World War II

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Across
  1. 2. The ____ Gay was a plane that dropped the first bomb on Hiroshima.
  2. 4. When millions of Jewish people were killed by the Nazis.
  3. 6. Operation ____ was the evacuation of the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) by sea.
  4. 11. The second Japanese city to be bombed by an atomic bomb on August 9th, 1945.
  5. 12. This war began shortly after World War II between the Soviet Union and the west.
  6. 13. Jewish people were put into ____ camps.
  7. 15. This was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  8. 18. A president who decided to drop the atomic bomb.
  9. 21. Operation ____ was the code name for the Allied invasion of Sicily, which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis Powers.
  10. 24. Survivors after the bombing in Japan began to have illness caused by large amounts of ____.
  11. 26. The Allied ____ Raid began at dawn on August 19th, 1942.
  12. 27. Another name for the invasion of Normandy.
  13. 28. A place that Germans occupied on June 4th, 1940.
Down
  1. 1. Louis ____ died 9 days after experimenting with plutonium.
  2. 3. ____ was a new German fighting style.
  3. 5. An international organization founded in 1945 to promote peace, security, and economic development.
  4. 7. France, Britain, Russia and the United States were in an alliance called the ____ Powers.
  5. 8. Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews was called the ____ ____.
  6. 9. ____ surrendered on September 2nd, 1945 and WWII was finally over.
  7. 10. The United States was able to predict the attack on Pearl Harbor an hour before it happened by using a good ____ system.
  8. 14. A code name for The Allied Dieppe Raid called Operation ____.
  9. 16. The atomic bomb was developed by the ____ Project.
  10. 17. A group of ships travelling together, usually armed by troops, warships etc...
  11. 19. The British ____ Air Force defended against the Germans in the Battle of Britain.
  12. 20. ____ Marines were ships which had sailors that were not part of the navy/army.
  13. 22. This day was called ____ because Germany had surrendered on May 7th, 1945 and WWII in Europe was finished.
  14. 23. The capital of the Kingdom of Prussia and the RAF had it's first bombing attack here on December 1941.
  15. 25. Hitler's title in that he had complete power over a country.