World War II Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

Edit Answers
123456789101112131415
Across
  1. 1. major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
  2. 5. a vegetable garden planted to increase food production during a war.
  3. 6. the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II.
  4. 10. United States detonated an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
  5. 11. naval base and headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Honolulu County, southern Oahu Island, Hawaii
  6. 12. Series of acts passed by the US Congress in response to the growing threats and wars that led to World War II.
  7. 14. nations first peactime draft and required all men between the ages of 21 and 35 to register for potential military service
Down
  1. 1. United States detonated an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
  2. 2. During World War II, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast Military Area.
  3. 3. a series of trials held in Nürnberg, Germany, in 1945 and 1946 following the end of World War II.
  4. 4. major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II
  5. 7. An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, policy under which the United States supplied Allied nations with supplies
  6. 8. research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.
  7. 9. Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
  8. 13. bypassing heavily armed locations for islands and atolls where airstrips could be constructed.
  9. 15. the act of satisfying someone or something