Across
- 2. Japanese and Japanese Americans from the West Coast of the United States during WWII. Approximately 110,000 men, women and children-were sent to hastily constructed camps called "War Relocation Centers" in rural areas of the US.
- 4. 1937 killing of 300,000 and rape of 80,000 Chinese citizens by Japanese soldiers.
- 9. Two Japanese cities on which the U.S. dropped the atomic bombs to end World War II.
- 12. Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II.
Down
- 1. a category of activities, made illegal at the Nuremberg war crime trials, condemning states that abuse human rights
- 3. A political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition
- 5. Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II.
- 6. U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942, in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in World War II.
- 7. Bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii by Japan on December 7, 1941.
- 8. WWII strategy of conquering only certain Pacific islands that were important to the Allied advance toward Japan
- 10. a nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element like uranium 235 or plutonium 239)
- 11. A battle in February and March 1945 in which U.S. forces took Iwo Jima, a small but strategically important island off the Japanese coast.