World War II

1. leader of Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945
4. came to power in 1922 and ruled Italy as an absolute dictator
5. General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
8. The code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941
11. August 15, 1945, the day on which the Allied forces declared victory over Japan.
13. a highly flammable sticky jelly used in incendiary bombs and flamethrowers, consisting of gasoline thickened with special soaps.
14. U.S. president who led the country through the bulk of World War II
16. one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
18. a state formally cooperating with another for a military or other purpose, typically by treaty.
19. May 8, 1945, the day on which the Allied forces declared victory in Europe.

1. Emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989
2. laws restricted blacks from entering many public and private facilities designated for whites
3. a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.
6. The US government's crash program to build an atomic bomb
7. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet president Josef Stalin—met at Yalta to make arrangements
9. location of a United States naval base that was attacked by the Japanese on 7 Dec 1941
10. a German submarine used in World War I or World War II.
12. was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area
15. the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan formed the Axis powers.
17. the day in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy