Across
- 6. general and his Third Army reached the Seine River south of Paris
- 8. Victory in Europe Day
- 10. establishing fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for the military
- 11. the commander of American naval forces in the Pacific moved to defend the island.
- 12. decided which companies would convert from peacetime to wartime production and allocated raw materials to key industries.
- 14. June 6, 1944, the first day of the invasion. The largest land-sea-air operation in army history.
- 15. an important Japanese military center, an atomic bomb Little Boy, was dropped on August 6.
- 16. Vice President, became the nation's 33rd President after Roosevelt's death.
- 18. suicide plane, an attack in which Japanese pilots crashed their bomb-laden planes into Allies ships.
- 20. was in command of Allied forces on the islands, General was
- 21. Women volunteers would serve in noncombat positions.
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- 1. American scientist
- 2. American General
- 3. fought inflation by freezing prices on most goods, also raised income tax rates, and extending the tax to millions of people who didn't pay it.
- 4. Tanks and drove 60 miles into Allied territory, creating a bulge in the lines that gave this desperate last-ditch offensive.
- 5. in the Philippines.
- 7. General, on July 25, unleashed massive air and land bombardment against the enemy at St. Lo.
- 9. the code name for research work that extended across the country
- 13. Army Chief of Staff General pushed for the WAAC.
- 17. president and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the nation's most respected African- American labor leader
- 19. the Japanese had lost four aircraft carriers, a cruiser, and 250 planes.
