Madison Patrick WW2 Crossword
Across
- 5. A battle that the Luftwaffe went on nightly bombing raids.
- 6. A surprise attack on the United States Navy.
- 10. An air raid on the Japanese by the United States not long after Pearl Harbor.
- 11. A major battle that the United States marine corps and navy landed on and captured and island from the Japanese army.
- 14. Germanys military strategy that also means “lightning war”.
- 15. A battle fought in 1943 that had six months of fighting and the Japanese lost 24,000 soldiers.
Down
- 1. One of the largest naval battles of World War II with over 200,000 naval personnel involved.
- 2. A name for the early months of World War II when no land operations were undertaken by the Allies or the Germans.
- 3. This battle caused so much damage to the Japanese that they had to cancel their attack of Port Moresby.
- 4. The last major battle of World War II and one of the bloodiest battles.
- 7. During this battle German tanks broke through weak American defenses.
- 8. This battle turned the tide of war in the Pacific and the American pilots destroyed 332 Japanese planes.
- 9. During this bombing the United States dropped two nuclear weapons of Japanese cities.
- 12. Battle fought between the Germans and the British and Hitler called of his attacks.
- 13. The Japanese forced 76,000 captured Allied soldiers to march about 80 miles.