Across
- 3. Invasion of this country started World War 2
- 4. Which beach were allied soldiers evacuated from in 1940
- 6. This 1942/3 battle in Russia was a turning point of the war
- 7. Month in 1945 the formal surrender ceremony by Japan took place
- 10. First Japanese city the atomic bomb was dropped on
- 12. The German-occupied port in France the allies failed to retake in August 1942 by an amphibious attack
- 13. Country that invaded Finland in 1939
- 16. One of the beaches the US troops landing on in the Battle of Normandy
- 17. Country that signed the “Pact of Steel” with Germany in 1939
- 19. Japanese island and site of a fierce battle in 1945
Down
- 1. By what name is 6 June 1944 known
- 2. Axis leader who committed suicide on April 30 1945
- 3. The bombing of this naval base brought the USA into the war
- 5. Trials of war criminals took place here
- 8. The conference attended by allied leaders at the end of 1943
- 9. German bombing of Great Britain
- 11. The 1938 agreement that allowed Hitler to annex the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia
- 14. the German code name for the invasion of Britain
- 15. Charter issues by FDR and Churchill in 1941
- 18. Conference at which the postwar settlement of Europe and the war against Japan was discussed