Fighting World War II

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Across
  1. 2. a bomb with explosive power that comes from the energy suddenly released by splitting the nuclei of uranium or plutonium atoms
  2. 3. the systematic killing of a racial, political, or cultural group
  3. 5. the top-secret U.S. government project that developed the atomic bomb
  4. 6. the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of Jews and other minority groups by the Nazis
  5. 9. a key Soviet victory during World War II that ended Hitler's effort to conquer the USSR
  6. 13. June 6, 1944, the day that the Allied invasion of German-occupied France began
  7. 14. the bombing of specific targets
  8. 15. the countries that fought against the Central Powers during World War I and the countries that fought against the Axis Powers during World War II
Down
  1. 1. the U.S. victory in World War II that positioned the Allies for an invasion of Japan
  2. 4. the alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II
  3. 7. a large-scale military counterattack by a force that was previously on the defensive
  4. 8. the rapid release of a large number of bombs over a wide area
  5. 10. an American strategy in the Pacific during World War II in which islands heavily defended by the Japanese were bypassed in order to capture nearby islands that were not well defended
  6. 11. the U.S. naval victory in the Pacific during World War II that stopped Japanese expansion and forced Japan to focus on defense
  7. 12. a Japanese strategy during World War II, in which suicide pilots flew bomb-filled planes directly into the vessels of the Allied fleet