WW2 Pacific Theater Vocabulary Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. A political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition
  2. 5. Two Japanese cities on which the U.S. dropped the atomic bombs to end World War II.
  3. 7. 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.
  4. 10. WWII strategy of conquering only certain Pacific islands that were important to the Allied advance toward Japan
  5. 11. 1937 killing of 300,000 and rape of 80,000 Chinese citizens by Japanese soldiers.
Down
  1. 2. a category of activities, made illegal at the Nuremberg war crime trials, condemning states that abuse human rights
  2. 3. Bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii by Japan on December 7, 1941.
  3. 4. 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.
  4. 6. Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II.
  5. 8. Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II.
  6. 9. 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.
  7. 12. 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)