World War II Vocabulary

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