World War 2 Crossword
Across
- 4. Japanese suicide pilots
- 5. war strategy used in the Pacific in an attempt to secure islands close enough to Japanese mainland to plan an invasion
- 8. genocide of the Jews during WW2
- 11. Hitler's policy implemented during WW2 for the mass extermination of Jews
- 12. lightning war
- 13. type of government that controls every aspect of citizen's lives, typically using fear and violence
- 16. event that brought the United States out of isolationism when they declared war on Japan
- 17. history's largest amphibious invasion on the beaches of Normandy, France
- 19. President of the U.S. that made the decision to drop the atomic bombs
- 21. nickname for the U-235 bomb dropped on Hiroshima
- 22. Name of Stalin's concentration camps/prisoner of war camps in the Soviet Union
Down
- 1. The U.S., Soviet Union, and Great Britain
- 2. leader of the Soviet Union during WW2
- 3. secret project where scientists began to develop an atomic bomb that would later be used on two cities in japan
- 6. Prime Minister of Great Britain throughout most of WW2
- 7. demilitarized zone that Hitler marched troops into before the war on the border of France and Germany
- 9. Italy, Japan and Germany
- 10. city in the Soviet Union where Hitler's army had its first major defeat
- 14. The month in 1945 that two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, ending WW2
- 15. policy of giving in to demands of an enemy in order to keep the peace
- 18. the U.S. state where the atomic bomb, The Trinity Device, was detonated
- 20. the northwest part of Czechoslovakia that was demanded by Hitler in the Munich Conference