Across
- 2. New technology that was instrumental in the aerial war between Britain and Germany in 1940, referred to as the “Battle of Britain”
- 4. Most mine-rigged area in the war
- 6. The ______ line, France’s main line of defense against Germany
- 9. The region of China which Japan invaded in 1931
- 11. Term used for the event of Austria joining Germany
- 14. Book written by Hitler in 1925
- 17. The battle that got both Japan and the United States involved in the war
- 19. Code name for the operation that began on D-Day
- 23. The strategy of choice for many countries in the League of Nations (Britain especially)
- 24. About 373,000 women worked in this kind of job during the war
- 25. Britain, France, Italy, and Germany were all members before 1933
- 26. “______ Front”- an alliance between Italy, France, and England against Germany in 1935
- 27. A short, violent attack meant to accomplish a sudden takeover of an area
- 28. The name for Ethiopia in 1935, when Italy attacked them
- 29. Original code name for Juno Beach
Down
- 1. The _ Memorandum (1937)
- 2. Demilitarized zone according to the Treaty of Versailles
- 3. The encryption machine used by the Germans that was said to be “uncrackable”
- 5. Founded by Bill Stephenson in 1941
- 7. Treaty that ended WWI, with significant negative consequences for the Germans
- 8. The Italian city in which Canadians started using the technique of “mouseholing”
- 10. Prime minister of Britain during the beginning of WWII
- 12. The D-Day beach with the least Allied casualties
- 13. This country was prominently not consulted during the Munich agreement
- 15. Political ideology followed by Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Francisco Franco
- 16. Section of Czechoslovakia the Germans initially wanted
- 18. The title which Mussolini took when he took over Italy
- 20. The title to which Hitler was first appointed
- 21. Canada, India, and Hong Kong were part of the British ______
- 22. This was the subject of some controversy in Canada, although not as much as it was in the last world war
- 25. Air force of the Germans during WWII