Crossword 15.2: World War II Begins (pages 703-708)

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Across
  1. 2. Fascist leader of Italy during World War II
  2. 5. dictator of the Soviet Union during World War II
  3. 7. a leader with absolute power that rules a nation buy force
  4. 8. the country the Nazis invaded without a fight at the start of World War II
  5. 11. a surprise attack at this location pulled America into World War II
  6. 12. the policy of giving in to the demands of others in an effort to keep the peace
  7. 13. British prime minister during nearly all of World War II
Down
  1. 1. Hitler made a surprising deal with this country to share control of Poland after Hitler invaded it
  2. 3. An area of mostly ethnically German people in Czechoslovakia that the Nazis invaded in the years leading up to World War II
  3. 4. the German word that literally translates as "lightning war" that describes a type of warfare that uses a series of fast surprise attacks
  4. 6. British prime minister who signed the Munich Agreement with Hitler
  5. 7. location of the rescue of nearly all of the remaining French and British troops after they were surrounded and bombarded by the luftwaffe for 3 days during World War II
  6. 9. the American president during most of World War II
  7. 10. World War II officially began after Hitler invaded this country