Across
- 3. a large area where important events or actions occur in a war
- 5. controlling the amount of (something, such as gasoline or food) that people are allowed to have especially when there is not enough of it
- 6. a sudden and overwhelming military attack. the German words for "lightning war"
- 8. camp Japanese Americans were put into these camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II
- 10. the murder of about 12 million people by the Nazis during World War II
- 11. the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) during World War II, aka the "good guys"
- 12. front the people who stay in a country and work while that country's soldiers are fighting in a war in a foreign country
- 16. Powers Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II, aka the "bad guys"
- 18. ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated and that are spread in order to help a cause, a political leader, a government, etc
- 19. a group of people who share the same history, traditions, or language that live in a particular area under one government
- 20. bomb a bomb deriving its destructive power from the release of nuclear energy
- 22. depression a period of time in which there is little economic activity and many people do not have jobs
- 23. a device that sends out radio waves for finding out the position and sped of a moving object
- 24. hopping the strategy employed by the United States to gain military bases and secure the many small islands in the Pacific to prepare for a land invasion of Japan
Down
- 1. avoiding war by meeting the demands of a threatening nation
- 2. the belief that a country should not be involved with other countries
- 4. garden effort on the home front to grow a family's food so that farm goods could be sent to soldiers overseas.
- 7. an area where military forces are fighting
- 9. a system of government that controls the people of a country in a very strict way with complete power that cannot be opposed
- 13. interdependence when two or more countries need to trade with one another to meet their needs
- 14. policy that allowed Great Britain to borrow military supplies from the United States during World War II
- 15. a ruler with absolute power
- 17. Project A secret project by the United States government to create an atomic bomb during World War II
- 21. camps a type of prison where the Nazis kept large numbers of Jewish people during World War II - people there were treated very badly and often killed