World War II
Across
- 2. June 6, 1944
- 4. 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
- 6. battle that ended any realistic plan Hitler had of dominating Europe
- 7. deadliest beach during the invasion of Normandy
- 11. type of bombing with the goal being to target a country's ability to make war
- 12. Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed their planes into American ships
- 13. buy now and government pays you back later with interest
- 15. limited amount of goods that could be purchased
- 16. code name for the project of developing the atomic bomb
- 21. what the US considered Japanese, German and Italian people in America
- 22. island only 340 miles from Japan that had an airbase that was a strategic requirement for the invasion of Japan
- 23. first US offensive in the Pacific that took place in the Solomon Islands
- 25. plan for the systematic extermination of Jews
- 27. temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group
- 30. program that brought laborers from Mexico
- 31. German commander in North Africa nicknamed the Desert Fox
- 34. atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
- 35. massive Allied Invasion of France was given the codename Operation
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- 1. atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
- 3. 1943 riots in Los Angeles
- 5. Night of the Broken Glass
- 8. Eisenhower put this man, nicknamed Blood and Guts, in command of North Africa
- 9. German counterattack after the invasion of Normandy was called the Battle of the
- 10. American strategy of capturing different islands, creating a path to Japan
- 14. laws in Germany denying German citizenship to Jews
- 17. African American labor leader
- 18. if you controlled this region you controlled the Mediterranean Sea
- 19. 9066. Allowed for internment in America
- 20. Italian leader during the war
- 24. German submarine
- 26. type of non-stop bombing with the goal being to inflict maximum damage
- 28. native born Americans of Japanese descent
- 29. Supreme Commander of the Allied invasion at Normandy
- 32. turning point of the war in the Pacific where America scored a decisive blow against Japan
- 33. Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin were known as the