WW2 Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. 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.
  2. 7. A government in which all economic and social activity is controlled by totalitarian leaders and one powerful political party.
  3. 8. Genocide of European Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II.
  4. 9. An economic condition when money loses its value and prices rise.
  5. 10. This person wanted an all-powerful German Empire, believed in Aryan supremacy, and blamed the Jewish people for the loss of WWI. His evil reign of power lasted 12 years.
  6. 12. August – October 1940: Germans bombed British shipyards, industries, & cities, destroying entire neighborhoods, killing many civilians.
  7. 14. Germany, Italy, and Japan.
  8. 16. Fearful of Japanese spies, more than 100,000 West Coast Japanese - Americans were sent to detention centers.
  9. 17. He pushed for economic support of the Allies with the Lend Lease program, while trying to keep his campaign promise to neutral. After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, he urged Congress to declare war on Japan.
  10. 19. Site of Japanese surprise attack on December 7, 1941
  11. 20. 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.
Down
  1. 1. Two Japanese cities where the U.S. dropped atomic bombs ending WWII.
  2. 3. An often negative preconceived opinion or feeling towards someone due to race, gender, religion, or anything else.
  3. 4. A political philosophy in which total power is given to a dictator and individual freedoms are denied.
  4. 5. Accepting demands in order to avoid conflicts.
  5. 6. Great Britain, USA, USSR, and France.
  6. 11. The U.S. helped Great Britain by supplying ammunition & old warships in exchange for several military bases in Bermuda & the Caribbean.
  7. 13. A female character appearing on government posters encouraging women to help in the war effort.
  8. 15. Prison and work camps for civilians.
  9. 18. “National Socialist German Workers’ Party.”