WW2

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Across
  1. 6. A leader who rules with total authority in a cruel or brutal manner. Individual human rights and freedoms are restricted.
  2. 8. The belief that a “pure” blood German with blonde-hair and blue eyes was superior to all other races.
  3. 13. Hitler’s “Final Solution.” Genocide* (systematic killing) of European Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II.
  4. 15. Germany, Italy and Japan
  5. 18. “National Socialist German Workers’ Party.” Hitler’sFascist party. Government during WWII.
  6. 19. An economic condition when money loses its value and prices rise.
  7. 20. Hatred, hostility, and discrimination toward and against Jews.
  8. 22. Consumers could buy only a certain number of goods so that the majority of these goods could be sent abroad to aid in the war effort.
  9. 23. Accepting demands in order to avoid conflicts.
  10. 24. A political philosophy in which total power is given to dictator and individual freedoms are denied.
Down
  1. 1. A government in which all economic and social activity is controlled by totalitarian leaders and one powerful political party.
  2. 2. Prison and work camps for civilians.
  3. 3. Site of Japanese surprise attack on December 7, 1941
  4. 4. February 1943, Soviet victory (ousting Germans) marked a major turning point in the war for the Allies on the eastern front.
  5. 5. The U.S. helped Great Britain by supplying ammunition & old warships in exchange for several military bases in Bermuda & the Caribbean.
  6. 7. This country borders the Soviet Union and Germany.
  7. 9. A fictional character appearing on government posters encouraging women to help in the war effort.
  8. 10. August – October 1940: Germans bombed British shipyards, industries, & cities, destroying entire neighborhoods, killing many civilians.
  9. 11. June 6, 1944: the largest combined land-sea-air invasion in history to begin the liberation of France from German occupation. The turning point on the western front and the beginning of the end war in Europe.
  10. 12. Two Japanese cities where the U.S. dropped atomic bombs ending WWII.
  11. 14. Fearful of Japanese spies, more than 100,000 West Coast Japanese - Americans were sent to detention centers.
  12. 16. Great Britain, the USA, the USSR, and France.
  13. 17. An often negative preconceived opinion or feeling towards someone due to race, gender, religion, or anything else.
  14. 21. This was the first major Japanese defeat and the turning point of the war in the Pacific.