World War II Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. New technology that was instrumental in the aerial war between Britain and Germany in 1940, referred to as the “Battle of Britain”
  2. 4. Most mine-rigged area in the war
  3. 6. The ______ line, France’s main line of defense against Germany
  4. 9. The region of China which Japan invaded in 1931
  5. 11. Term used for the event of Austria joining Germany
  6. 14. Book written by Hitler in 1925
  7. 17. The battle that got both Japan and the United States involved in the war
  8. 19. Code name for the operation that began on D-Day
  9. 23. The strategy of choice for many countries in the League of Nations (Britain especially)
  10. 24. About 373,000 women worked in this kind of job during the war
  11. 25. Britain, France, Italy, and Germany were all members before 1933
  12. 26. “______ Front”- an alliance between Italy, France, and England against Germany in 1935
  13. 27. A short, violent attack meant to accomplish a sudden takeover of an area
  14. 28. The name for Ethiopia in 1935, when Italy attacked them
  15. 29. Original code name for Juno Beach
Down
  1. 1. The _ Memorandum (1937)
  2. 2. Demilitarized zone according to the Treaty of Versailles
  3. 3. The encryption machine used by the Germans that was said to be “uncrackable”
  4. 5. Founded by Bill Stephenson in 1941
  5. 7. Treaty that ended WWI, with significant negative consequences for the Germans
  6. 8. The Italian city in which Canadians started using the technique of “mouseholing”
  7. 10. Prime minister of Britain during the beginning of WWII
  8. 12. The D-Day beach with the least Allied casualties
  9. 13. This country was prominently not consulted during the Munich agreement
  10. 15. Political ideology followed by Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Francisco Franco
  11. 16. Section of Czechoslovakia the Germans initially wanted
  12. 18. The title which Mussolini took when he took over Italy
  13. 20. The title to which Hitler was first appointed
  14. 21. Canada, India, and Hong Kong were part of the British ______
  15. 22. This was the subject of some controversy in Canada, although not as much as it was in the last world war
  16. 25. Air force of the Germans during WWII