WW2 Battles Crossword

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  1. 2. a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.
  2. 4. a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II.
  3. 5. the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  4. 9. the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II.
  5. 12. the British-United States invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War
  6. 16. a major naval battle fought, about 500 miles northeast of Australia, between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States and Australia.
  7. 17. the last of the World War II meetings held by the “Big Three” heads of state.
  8. 18. a battle of the Italian Campaign of World War II that took place from January 22, 1944 to June 5, 1944.
  9. 19. the first major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater.
  10. 20. an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13,000,000,000 in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European
  11. 21. an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.
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  1. 1. a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War.
  2. 3. the first major international crises of the Cold War.
  3. 6. the basic United States strategy for fighting the cold war with the Soviet Union.
  4. 7. created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
  5. 8. the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II.
  6. 10. the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
  7. 11. a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.
  8. 13. an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States taking the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  9. 14. a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II which occurred between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
  10. 15. These were nations that were aligned with, but also under the influence and pressure of, the Soviet Union.
  11. 22. a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured this island