WWll Battles & Military Terms Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War.
  2. 5. Axis invasion of the Soviet Union that started on June 22nd, 1941.
  3. 6. major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.
  4. 7. last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during WWll.
  5. 9. battle that was a military campaign for the Second World War.
  6. 10. surprise, preemptive military attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu.
  7. 12. Battle where Germany & its allies fought the Soviet Union in Southern Russia.
  8. 13. 8-month period at the beginning of WWll where there was only one limited military land operation on the Western Front, when French troops invaded Germany’s Saar district.
Down
  1. 2. One of the Japanese cities that the US had bombed with nuclear weapons on August 6th & 9th in 1945.
  2. 3. First major land offense by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan.
  3. 4. defense & evacuation to Britain of the British & other Allied forces.
  4. 5. Forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000-80,000 American & Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan, & Mariveles to Camp O’Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, via San Fernando, Pampanga, where the prisoners were loaded onto trains.
  5. 7. an intense military campaign intended to bring out a swift victory.
  6. 8. Allied operation that led the successful invasion of German-occupied Europe during WWll.
  7. 11. Decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre that took place from June 4th, 1942 to June 7th, 1942.