WW2 Crossword Vocab
Across
- 3. code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II.
- 4. Give valid reasons or evidence to support an answer or conclusion
- 6. Belief that one race is superior or inferior to another
- 9. an attack by an armed force to conquer another country
- 10. United States general who played an important role in the Allied victory in World War II
- 12. the deliberate killing of a large group of people, based on race, ethnicity, or religion
- 13. Japanese city in which the second atomic bomb was dropped
- 15. Soviet General during World War II
- 16. A device in literature where an object represents an idea
- 18. Japanese suicide pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and crashed them into American ships
- 19. A graphic novel by Art Spiegelman detailing his fathers' life through the Holocaust and time spent in concentration camps
- 20. City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.
Down
- 1. Detention centers where more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were relocated during World War II by order of the President
- 2. Desert Fox"-May 1942; German and Italian armies were led by him and attacked British occupied Egypt and the Suez Canal for the second time; were defeated at the Battle of El Alamein;
- 5. The Third German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s
- 7. the name of the American B-29 bomber, piloted by Col. Paul Tibbets, Jr., that dropped the atomic bomb
- 8. British Royal Air Force
- 11. Prejudice against Jews
- 14. the German air force before and during World War II
- 17. "Lighting war", type of fast-moving warfare used by German forces in WWII