Across
- 2. German for “lightning war”; a swift and sudden military attack; used by the Germans during World War II
- 6. the process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war
- 10. a person who assists the enemy
- 11. Japanese for “divine wind”; a suicide mission in which young Japanese pilots intentionally flew their airplanes into U.S. fighting ships at sea
- 12. to influence or control
- 13. to make certain of something; to guarantee
- 17. a resistance fighter in World War II
- 19. the deliberate mass murder or physical extinction of a particular racial, political, or cultural group
- 21. based on a set of beliefs
- 22. the military force occupying a country or the policies carried out by it
- 23. a determining condition; state of affairs
Down
- 1. the refusal to take sides or become involved in wars between other nations
- 3. elimination or prohibition of weapons, fortifications, and other military installations
- 4. the British term for the German air raids on British cities and towns during World War II
- 5. the period of political tension following World War II and ending with the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s
- 7. satisfying reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability
- 8. a disregard of rules or agreements
- 9. a commitment or a connection to
- 14. a policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international political and economic relations
- 15. relating to people who have common racial, religious, or cultural origins
- 16. determination; a fixed purpose
- 18. restrictions intended to enforce international law
- 20. widely extended or spread out
