World War II Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. A device used to detect enemy aircraft.
  2. 10. Nickname for conscripted soldiers defending the Canadian homeland.
  3. 11. A device used to find the position of enemy submarines.
  4. 14. The vote held by Mackenzie King concerning conscription.
  5. 16. A Canadian-American group of elite paratoopers known as the Devil's ____.
  6. 17. Canadian forces chased the Germans out of this country after the battle of Scheldt.
  7. 19. A medicine that was mass-produced and provided to Allied soldiers during the war.
  8. 20. Canadians were tasked with clearing a supply route and lost over 6300 troops in the battle of ____.
  9. 21. The area of the Allied attack which began Operation Overlord.
  10. 22. This country had the fourth largest navy in the world by the end of WWII.
Down
  1. 1. German u-boats that travel in a group.
  2. 2. The first area victim to the atomic bomb.
  3. 4. The capital of Japan, which was bombed by American air forces.
  4. 5. Strategically placed defenses guarding the Germans from an Allied attack on Normandy.
  5. 6. Leader of Italy who was looking to build an empire.
  6. 7. Leader of Germany who can be held responsible for the death of millions.
  7. 8. The president of the United States who ordered the drop of the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima.
  8. 9. First country Italy invaded in WWII.
  9. 12. The day Operation Overlord was launched.
  10. 13. Operation _____ was the plan to end the war in Europe.
  11. 15. When Canadian forces arrived in Britain unprepared, they trained with wooden bullets. This was known as the ____ war.
  12. 18. The city in which 300,000 Allied troops were rescued by navy and fishing boats.
  13. 20. The leader of Russia during WWII.
  14. 23. The longest battle of the war, between German navy and u-boats and Allied navy and air force, was know as the Battle of the ___.