World War II
Across
- 1. leader of Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945
- 4. came to power in 1922 and ruled Italy as an absolute dictator
- 5. General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- 8. The code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941
- 11. August 15, 1945, the day on which the Allied forces declared victory over Japan.
- 13. a highly flammable sticky jelly used in incendiary bombs and flamethrowers, consisting of gasoline thickened with special soaps.
- 14. U.S. president who led the country through the bulk of World War II
- 16. one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
- 18. a state formally cooperating with another for a military or other purpose, typically by treaty.
- 19. May 8, 1945, the day on which the Allied forces declared victory in Europe.
Down
- 1. Emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989
- 2. laws restricted blacks from entering many public and private facilities designated for whites
- 3. a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.
- 6. The US government's crash program to build an atomic bomb
- 7. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet president Josef Stalin—met at Yalta to make arrangements
- 9. location of a United States naval base that was attacked by the Japanese on 7 Dec 1941
- 10. a German submarine used in World War I or World War II.
- 12. was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area
- 15. the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan formed the Axis powers.
- 17. the day in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy