World War II Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 4. the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated
- 5. laws passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 to limit U.S. involvement in future wars
- 6. one of the two attacks by the United States on Japan at the end of World War II that resulted in Japan’s surrender.
- 10. Foreign policy of pacifying an aggrieved country through negotiation in order to prevent war.
- 11. a strategy used by the allies to leapfrog towards japan
- 12. a series of trials held in Nürnberg, Germany, in 1945 and 1946 following the end of World War II.
- 13. Act to Promote the Defense of the United States
- 14. Major World War II naval battle between the U.S. and Japan
- 15. signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, created the country’s first peacetime draft.
Down
- 1. the first instances of atomic bombs used against humans 1945
- 2. a harbor near Honolulu, attacked by Japan on the U.S. naval base
- 3. a vegetable garden planted to increase food production during a war
- 6. Adolf Hitler’s last major offensive in World War II against the Western Front
- 7. U.S. Supreme Court case concerning the forced relocation and confinement of Japanese Americans in the 1940s
- 8. U.S. government research project that produced the first atomic bombs.
- 9. The US mounted an amphibious invasion of the island of Iwo Jima as part of its Pacific campaign against Japan.