World War II

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