Important Figures World War II

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Across
  1. 1. known as "Monty" and was sent to take control of British forces in North Africa
  2. 9. "enemy aliens"
  3. 13. produced the first nuclear chain reaction
  4. 14. led the United States Third Army
  5. 15. pushed Britain back across the desert and earned the nickname "Desert Fox"
  6. 16. an American general who was the commander of the allied land forces in the Pacific
  7. 17. initiated World War II and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust
  8. 19. a jew who survived the Holocaust who wrote, “Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky. Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. . . . Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. . . . Never.”
  9. 20. president during the Great Depression, organized the New Deal program, and supported the U.S. economy during the war
Down
  1. 2. 33rd president of the U.S
  2. 3. organized a bombing in Tokyo and other cities in Japan as revenge from the bombing of Pearl Harbor
  3. 4. founded fascism and ruled as a dictator for Italy
  4. 5. Hitler's wife
  5. 6. Japan's greatest naval strategist who also called an attack on the U.S. in Hawaii
  6. 7. organized the Free French military forces that battled the Nazis until France was liberated in
  7. 8. hitlers former deputy
  8. 10. Hitler's elite security force
  9. 11. was the new British prime minister and promised that the British would “...wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us...against a monstrous tyranny.”
  10. 12. American general and leader of the allied forces in Europe; he led an invasion to help end the war
  11. 14. German field marshall who commanded the 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad
  12. 18. commander in chief of the U.S.Pacific Fleet