War in the Pacific

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Across
  1. 2. The shortened term for soldiers captured during wartime
  2. 6. Liberating island after island.
  3. 7. French Colonial name for the region which included present day Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
  4. 8. A law passed by the U.S. to supply allied nations with weapons, whilst still remaining neutral in the war.
  5. 11. August 9, 1945.
  6. 12. A prison for the confinement of people during wartime.
  7. 13. The battle for this island was hard fought, few of the 18.000 Japanese soldiers stationed here survived.
  8. 14. This method of attack was used during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese planes fly / crash into their target.
  9. 16. This battle was fought using airplanes
  10. 17. A German submarine
Down
  1. 1. The peace treaty with Japan was signed on the deck of this ship.
  2. 2. The Japanese attack on this place led to the official U.S. involvement in WWII.
  3. 3. The Japanese often treated captured soldiers cruelly because they believed that to be captured was ...
  4. 4. After losing this battle, the Japanese began losing island after island.
  5. 5. This project was responsible for the development of the A-bomb.
  6. 9. Using forced labor, the construction of this piece of infrastructure was completed in 1943.
  7. 10. August 6, 1945.
  8. 15. Japan invaded this region in 1931, hoping to expand their empire.