1940s

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Across
  1. 2. site of first a-bomb test in New Mexico
  2. 3. ten nations sign on to this alliance in 1949
  3. 9. delivered messages for the Dutch resistance, Audrey ___
  4. 10. island nation gains independence from US
  5. 12. major sports league founded in 1946
  6. 14. first UN meeting held here
  7. 15. Steinbeck comedic novel
  8. 17. location of bloody Pacific Theater battle in 1945
  9. 20. pilgrimage location in Southern France
  10. 22. one of the allies conference sites
  11. 23. Bosox slugger 1st name
  12. 25. Congress approves a reconstruction program - the ___ Plan
  13. 27. airmen who fought Japan before US enters the war
  14. 29. to not stand is to ___
  15. 30. Agreement to supply goods to allies, with -lease
  16. 31. Hormel canned meat that becomes a staple
  17. 32. Germany's attack on London "The __"
  18. 34. large US Pacific Fleet location
Down
  1. 1. he replaces Chamberlain
  2. 2. Frank's 2nd wife
  3. 4. General Bradley
  4. 5. General Purpose vehicle also know as the ___ invented in 1941
  5. 6. later Presidential candidate from Kansas who fought in WWII
  6. 7. he left acting to serve as a pilot
  7. 8. he lost to Truman in 1948
  8. 11. major Asian nation gains independence
  9. 13. Never in the field of human conflict was so much been owed by so many to so ___
  10. 16. Country great Hank
  11. 18. he led the Three Stooges
  12. 19. Last German offensive Battle of the ___
  13. 21. major historical find in the Middle East in '47
  14. 24. Hitler was after this resource in N. Africa
  15. 26. he broke the color barrier in baseball
  16. 28. new nation emerges in the Middle East
  17. 32. FRD, Churchill, Stalin
  18. 33. Churchill coins a metaphor for soviet influence in Europe - "the ___ ___"