World War II Terms

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Across
  1. 3. /the day (May 8) marking the allied victory in Europe
  2. 6. /was a pivotal policy statement issued on 14 august 1941,that,early in World War II, defined the allied goals for the post war world
  3. 8. /a major United States naval base in Hawaii that was attacked without warning by the Japanese air force on December 7, 1941
  4. 9. /passed in 1941:such aid was to be repaid in kind after the war
  5. 10. /the day (august 15) in 1945 on which Japan ceased fighting in World war II , or the day (september 2) when Japan formally surrender
  6. 13. /is an international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among member countries
  7. 14. /destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war
  8. 15. /on august 6,1945, _____ was completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a populated area
Down
  1. 1. /in the summer of 1945 where Roosevelt , Stalin, and Churchill drew up plans for the administration of Germany and Poland after World War II ended
  2. 2. /the order established the first general loyalty program in the United States , designed to root out communist influence in the U.S. federal government
  3. 4. /a term applied by Nazis to the negocide of European Jews during World War II
  4. 5. /s seaport in SW Italy :taken bu U.S. forces September 1943
  5. 7. /the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima and _____ made _____ the second and , to date , last city in the World to experience a nuclear attack
  6. 11. /in or toward the middle of something
  7. 12. /a Japanese defeat in world war II (May 1942);the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers