World War II

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Across
  1. 4. island only 340 miles from Japan that had an airbase that was a strategic requirement for the invasion of Japan
  2. 6. turning point of the war in the Pacific where America scored a decisive blow against Japan
  3. 7. deadliest beach during the invasion of Normandy
  4. 11. what the US considered Japanese, German and Italian people in America
  5. 14. first US offensive in the Pacific that took place in the Solomon Islands
  6. 16. type of bombing with the goal being to target a country's ability to make war
  7. 17. Italian leader during the war
  8. 18. plan for the systematic extermination of Jews
  9. 20. massive Allied Invasion of France was given the codename Operation
  10. 21. code name for the project of developing the atomic bomb
  11. 23. Eisenhower put this man, nicknamed Blood and Guts, in command of North Africa
  12. 24. German commander in North Africa nicknamed the Desert Fox
  13. 27. temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group
  14. 29. if you controlled this region you controlled the Mediterranean Sea
  15. 32. atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
  16. 33. type of non-stop bombing with the goal being to inflict maximum damage
Down
  1. 1. German submarine
  2. 2. Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin were known as the
  3. 3. battle that ended any realistic plan Hitler had of dominating Europe
  4. 5. Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed their planes into American ships
  5. 8. Night of the Broken Glass
  6. 9. program that brought laborers from Mexico
  7. 10. German counterattack after the invasion of Normandy was called the Battle of the
  8. 11. Allowed for internment in America
  9. 12. buy now and government pays you back later with interest
  10. 13. American strategy of capturing different islands, creating a path to Japan
  11. 15. limited amount of goods that could be purchased
  12. 19. African American labor leader
  13. 22. laws in Germany denying German citizenship to Jews
  14. 25. 1943 riots in Los Angeles
  15. 26. June 6, 1944
  16. 27. Pacific battle where Japanese forces hid in their surroundings and waited for Americans to cross the beach. America raised its flag on the hill here
  17. 28. native born Americans of Japanese descent
  18. 30. Supreme Commander of the Allied invasion at Normandy
  19. 31. atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki