Vocab #9
Across
- 3. a surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese in 1941
- 4. the genocide of European Jews during World War II
- 6. the military coalition which initiated World War II and fought against the Allies
- 7. the day Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, bringing the war to an end
- 9. explosive cruise missiles with pilots that would attempt to crash their aircraft into enemy ships
- 11. a military strategy of bypassing heavily fortified enemy islands
- 13. the first day of the Allied invasion of German-occupied Western Europe in 1944
- 14. the controlled distribution of scarce resources and goods
- 15. hostility toward or discrimination against Jews
- 17. research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons
- 18. a policy under which the United States supplied Allied nations of the Second World War with food, oil, and material between 1941 and 1945.
Down
- 1. a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology
- 2. a combined arms surprise attack
- 5. an international military coalition formed during World War II to oppose the Axis powers
- 8. ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause
- 10. diplomatic negotiation policy of making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power with intention to avoid conflict.
- 12. an international peacekeeping organization and a forum for resolving conflicts between nations, made after World War II
- 16. the detention camps thousands of Japanese-Americans were forced into by the US government during World War II