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