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