World War II
Across
- 2. Germany could not attack the English by sea so they attacked through this instead. (pg 417)
- 4. Americans supported this policy that the country should not be involved in any war (pg 414)
- 7. British Prime Minister who is famous for saying, “We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be.” (pg 417)
- 8. Means “lightning war.” A new type of warfare first used by the Germans in WWII. (pg 415)
- 10. The United States did this to Japanese assets because of the Japanese actions in Indochina (pg 419)
- 12. In 1940, the United States started the first peacetime one of these. (pg 418)
- 15. Country that Hitler promised to give Stalin in exchange for the Soviets pledge to not attack Germany (pg 41)
- 16. This word means “political union.” Germany had this union with Austria in 1938. (pg 413)
- 19. This British Prime Minister claimed “I believe it is peace for our time” after meeting with Adolf Hitler. (pg 411)
- 22. He became the Japanese prime minister in 1941 and began preparing Japan for war against the United States. (pg 419)
- 23. France relied on the ______ Line, a string of heavily armed fortresses along the German border. (pg 415)
- 24. Hitler’s violation of the Treaty of Versailles boosted his _________ in Germany (pg 412)
Down
- 1. During the Pearl Harbor attack, the Japanese failed to sink any of these types of ships. (The answer is in plural form) (pg 419).
- 3. Japan turned this area of China into an industrial and military base for future expansion (pg 412)
- 5. This is the German speaking region of Czechoslovakia that Hitler wanted to bring back under German control. (pg 413)
- 6. In October of 1936, Germany and Italy created an alliance, known as the ______ Powers (pg 413)
- 9. German word for “living space.” (pg 414)
- 10. Hitler did not want to fight on two ___________, east and west, at the same time. (pg 414)
- 11. Great Britain and France did little to stop Hitler’s expansion because they believed in this idea (pg 413)
- 13. The period of time during the German air war against England where they specifically attacked cities (pg 418).
- 14. The unoccupied part of France that was ruled by a pupper German government was known as this (pg 417)
- 17. In October of 1935, Italy invaded this African country. (pg 413)
- 18. Hitler wanted the return of this city because it was an ethnically German city in the Polish Corridor close to the Baltic Sea. (pg 414)
- 20. Abbreviation for the Royal Air Force, (Great Britain's air force) (pg 417)
- 21. Port city in France that saw hundreds of thousands of French and British troops trapped during the German invasion of France. (pg 415)