World War II
Across
- 4. a secret program
- 5. began on June 4, 1942, when Japan started bombing the islands
- 9. Victory in Europe Day
- 11. a weapon that produces tremendous power by splitting atoms
- 12. A key turning point of the war
- 14. A term used by the Nazis which meant the extermination of the Jews
- 16. the the air force of Great Britain
- 17. a prison for those who pose as a threat to the state or country
- 18. The extermination of an entire group of people
- 20. The Germans quickly pushed the allied forces back about 65 miles, creating a huge bulge in the allied lines
Down
- 1. Great Britain,the Soviet Union, the United States, China, France
- 2. The largest naval battle in history
- 3. purposely crashing piloted planes into enemy ships
- 6. More than 600 Americans and about 10,000 Filipinos died
- 7. American, British, and Canadian troops invaded France on June 6, 1944
- 8. when countries would give in to Hitler's demands so a war would not begin
- 10. American and Japanese aircraft carriers and fighter planes clashed
- 13. Victory in Japan Day
- 15. the mass murder of 6 million Jews and non-Jews
- 19. Where allied forces took only the most strategically important islands, instead of each Japanese-held island