World War II
Across
- 3. battle that ended any realistic plan Hitler had of dominating Europe
- 6. June 6, 1944
- 7. Pacific battle where Japanese forces hid in their surroundings and waited for Americans to cross the beach. America raised its flag on the hill here
- 9. deadliest beach during the invasion of Normandy
- 10. what the US considered Japanese, German and Italian people in America
- 11. Supreme Commander of the Allied invasion at Normandy
- 14. plan for the systematic extermination of Jews
- 18. African American labor leader
- 19. limited amount of goods that could be purchased
- 20. Italian leader during the war
- 23. Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed their planes into American ships
- 24. Allowed for internment in America
- 25. program that brought laborers from Mexico
- 26. first US offensive in the Pacific that took place in the Solomon Islands
- 29. island only 340 miles from Japan that had an airbase that was a strategic requirement for the invasion of Japan
- 30. German commander in North Africa nicknamed the Desert Fox
- 31. type of non-stop bombing with the goal being to inflict maximum damage
- 33. type of bombing with the goal being to target a country's ability to make war
- 34. buy now and government pays you back later with interest
Down
- 1. Eisenhower put this man, nicknamed Blood and Guts, in command of North Africa
- 2. atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
- 4. temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group
- 5. turning point of the war in the Pacific where America scored a decisive blow against Japan
- 7. American strategy of capturing different islands, creating a path to Japan
- 8. 1943 riots in Los Angeles
- 12. German counterattack after the invasion of Normandy was called the Battle of the
- 13. Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin were known as the
- 15. laws in Germany denying German citizenship to Jews
- 16. if you controlled this region you controlled the Mediterranean Sea
- 17. code name for the project of developing the atomic bomb
- 21. native born Americans of Japanese descent
- 22. Night of the Broken Glass
- 27. German submarine
- 28. atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
- 32. massive Allied Invasion of France was given the codename Operation