World War II Vocabulary
Across
- 2. Hitler’s “Final Solution” of systematic killing of European Jews and others by the Nazis
- 4. A leader who rules with total authority in a cruel or brutal manner
- 5. A political philosophy in which total power is given to a dictator and individual freedoms are denied
- 9. Great Britain, the USA, the USSR, and France
- 10. He used unrest and economic instability in Italy to grab power in the 1920s
- 14. Germany, Italy, and Japan
- 15. Consumers could buy only certain number of goods so that the majority of these goods could be sent abroad to aid in the war effort
- 16. battle that was the first major Japanese defeat and the turning point of the war in the Pacific
- 17. President of the US focused on his New Deal
Down
- 1. Accepting demands in order to avoid conflicts
- 2. first Japanese city where the U.S. dropped atomic bombs ending WWII
- 3. Site of Japanese surprise attack on December 7, 1941
- 4. Normandy Invasion on June 6, 1944: the largest combined land-sea-air invasion in history
- 6. A government in which all economic and social activity is controlled by totalitarian leaders and one powerful political party
- 7. Hatred, hostility, and discrimination toward and against Jews
- 8. He was military general and Prime Minister of Japan from 1941 – 1944
- 11. Battle in Soviet city that was a Soviet victory and marked a major turning point in the war on the eastern front
- 12. He was appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1940 and led Britain with great courage
- 13. He used the anger over the Treaty of Versailles and the depression in Germany to grab power in the 1920s