Across
- 3. a key Soviet victory during World War II that ended Hitler's effort to conquer the USSR
- 4. the alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II
- 5. the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of Jews and other minority groups by the Nazis
- 6. a large-scale military counterattack by a force that was previously on the defensive
- 7. 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
- 8. June 6, 1944, the day that the Allied invasion of German-occupied France began
- 9. the systematic killing of a racial, political, or cultural group
Down
- 1. the U.S. victory in World War II that positioned the Allies for an invasion of Japan
- 2. the U.S. naval victory in the Pacific during World War II that stopped Japanese expansion and forced Japan to focus on defense
- 4. a bomb with explosive power that comes from the energy suddenly released by splitting the nuclei of uranium or plutonium atoms