WWII Crossword

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  1. 1. Harbor On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the US Naval Base in Hawaii, bringing the United States into World War II.
  2. 5. An order of government prohibiting commercial trade and other commerce with another country.
  3. 6. An extendable, tubelike optical instrument containing an arrangement of prisms, mirrors and lenses that permitted a submarine to view the surface sea from a submerged position or to observe at a level above the eye.
  4. 8. a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend the fleet.In World War II, with the addition of radar and antiaircraft guns, its escort role included air defense.
  5. 9. of the Coral Sea A battle from May 4–8, 1942, in which U.S. naval forces successfully protected the Allied base at Port Moresby, New Guinea, the last Allied outpost standing between the Japanese onslaught and Australia.
  6. 13. A campaign in the Pacific War of World War II that consisted of a series of battles fought between July and November 1942 between Japanese and Allied—primarily Australian—forces in what was then the Australian territory of Papua.
  7. 15. Project A secret American program during World War II to develop an atomic bomb.
  8. 16. The first city in history to be targeted by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF)dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M. on August 6, 1945, near the end of World War II.
  9. 18. The German air force, which was used heavily in campaigns such as the Battle of Britain in 1940.
  10. 21. the main fighter plane of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in 1941.
  11. 22. (USMC, US Army)this large force performs major tactical operations for the corps and can conduct sustained battles and engagements:made up of at least three brigades with between 10,000 and 20,000 soldiers,normally commanded by major generals.
  12. 23. On 4 June 1942, U.S. forces defeated the Japanese navy at this decisive battle in the South Pacific.
  13. 24. The act of genocide carried out by Germany on the Jewish population of Europe.
  14. 27. The capital city of Japan.
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  1. 1. "Armour",became a general term for German tanks.
  2. 2. The 32nd U.S. president, who led the country through the bulk of World War II until his death from a cerebral hemorrhage in April 1945, just a few months before the war ended.
  3. 3. an Australian general of the First and Second World Wars, and the only Australian ever to attain the rank of field marshal.
  4. 4. Emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989.
  5. 7. US Army) Consists of 130 to 150 soldiers or Marines. Normally commanded by captains and consisting of two or more platoons, usually of the same type, a headquarters unit and some logistical capabilities.
  6. 10. Australian city bombed by the Japanese on 19th February,1942.
  7. 11. (USMC, US Army)Usually about 400-strong, is comprised of three rifle companies, a combat support company and a headquarters company.
  8. 12. suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II.
  9. 14. Powers In World War II, the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan formed the Axis powers.
  10. 17. The code name for the Allied invasion of France in 1944, which commenced on the beaches of Normandy and ultimately was successful in liberating France and pushing German forces back east to their own territory.
  11. 19. The term used for regular German army.
  12. 20. A system of government dominated by far-right-wing forces and generally commanded by a single dictator, most notably Adolf Hitler of Germany.
  13. 25. Australian Prime Minister in WWII.
  14. 26. A German submarine, generally larger then 200 tons.