World War II: 1939 - 1945

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Across
  1. 2. FDR's secretary of state who promoted reciprocal trade agreements (last name)
  2. 4. instigator of 1934 Senate hearings that castigated WWI munition manufacturers
  3. 6. Republican presidential nominee in 1944 who found little support for his effort to deny FDR a 4th term (last name)
  4. 7. leading American industrialist & shipbuilder during WWII
  5. 9. name)
  6. 13. U.S. destroyer sunk by German submarines
  7. 14. German-born physicist who helped persuade Roosevelt to develop the atomic bomb (last name)
  8. 16. U.S.-British agreement of August 1941 to promote democracy & establish a new international organization for peace
  9. 18. controversial U.S. - British demand on Germany & Japan that substituted for a "second front" ("______________ surrender")
  10. 20. European diplomatic conference in 1938 where Britain & France practice unsuccessful "appeasement" of Hitler
  11. 22. head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters whose threatened march on Washington opened job opportunities for blacks during WWII
  12. 23. FDR's repudiation of TR's corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
  13. 28. commander of U.S. nval forces in the Pacific & brilliant strategist of the "island-hopping" campaign (last name)
  14. 29. demilitarized territory under the Versailles treaty, occupied by Hitler in 1935 in is first blatant act of aggression
  15. 30. U.S. owned Pacific archipelago seized by Japan in the early months of WWII
  16. 31. site of 1943 FDR/Churchill conference in N. Africa at which they planned the invasion of Italy
  17. 33. U.S gunboat sunk by Japan in 1937
  18. 34. beginning of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944
  19. 37. Mexican - American workers brought into the U.S. to provide an agricultural labor supply
Down
  1. 1. controversial 1941 law that made America the "arsenal of democracy"
  2. 3. communist nation invaded by Hitler in June 1941 and aided by American lend-lease
  3. 5. Japanese emperor who was allowed to stay his throne, despite unconditional surrender
  4. 6. site of racial disturbance during WWII
  5. 8. commander of U.S. Army in the Pacific during WWII who fulfilled his promised (last name)
  6. 10. FDR's 1937 speech that proposed strong U.S measures against overseas aggressors
  7. 11. leading isolationist group
  8. 12. nation whose sudden fall to Hitler in 1940 pushed the U.S. closer to direct aid to Britain
  9. 15. series of laws enacted by Congress in the mid-1930s that attempted to prevent any American involvement in future overseas war
  10. 17. fascist rebel against the Spanish loyalist government (last name only)
  11. 19. former Missouri senator who was suddenly catapulted to national & world leadership on April 12th, 1945
  12. 21. symbolic personification of female laborers who took factor jobs in order to sustain U.S. production during the war (_____ the Riveter)
  13. 24. last heavily defended Japanese island conquered by the United States in 1945, at a high cost in casualties
  14. 25. crucial naval battle of June 1942 in which U.S. Admiral Chester Nimitz blocked the Japanese attempt to conquer a strategic island near Hawaii
  15. 26. FDR's liberal Vp during most of WWII, who was dumped from the ticket in 1944
  16. 27. federal agency that coordinated U.S. industry and successfully mobilized the economy to produce vast quantities of military supplies (abbreviation)
  17. 32. leader of "America First" & chief spokesman for U.S. isolationism
  18. 35. tough head of United Mine Workers whose work stoppages precipitated antistrike legislation (last name)
  19. 36. federal agency established to guarantee opportunities for African American employment in WWII industries (abbreviation)