World War II

Word Bank
Audie Murphy, Fascism, Hideki Tojo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Hitler, Holocaust, Japan, Japanese Americans, Kamikaze, Korematsu v United States, Krystallnacht, Lend Lease Act, Manhattan Project, Midway, Mussolini, Navajos, Nuremberg, Oppenheimer, Penicillin, Prejudice & Fears, Roosevelt, Rosie the Riveter, Stalin, Stalingrad, Truman, Tuskegee Airmen, Two ocean navy, United Nations, appeasement, atomic bombs, blitzkkrieg, break codes, defense products, internment of Japanese Americans, military equipment, purple heart, rationing, segregated, women, zoot suit riots

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Across

1. Suicide missions by japanese pilots

7. Began preparing a surprise attack after the US refused to lift its embargo on oil.

8. most decorated soldier in World War II (2 Words)

10. First major Japanese Naval defeat

12. Organization created after WW II to promote peace (2 Words)

13. authorized the dropping of the Atomic Bombs

14. Most notable African American who served in the military during WW II (2 Words)

18. 442 regiment during World War II (2 Words)

19. giving up principles to pacify an aggressor

20. Joined the work force in record numbers during WW II

22. Dictator & leader of the Soviet Union during WW II

23. Few automobiles were built during WW II because factories were converted to build __________ _____________. (2 Words)

24. They were used as code talkers

26. It was legal to relocate Japanese Americans for military necessity (4 Words)

29. First major German defeat during World War II

31. lighting war

34. Confrontation in Los Angeles between sailors and Mexican Americans (3 Words)

35. Ideology that stressed nationalism & placed the interest of the state above individuals

36. Races were ___________ in the US military during World War II

37. Medicine develop during World War II

38. Sistematic murder of 6 million Jews

Down

1. Jewish Synagoges and businesses were damaged or destroyed

2. American scientist in charge of the development of the atomic bomb

3. WW II federal policy that was justified as a wartime necessity (4 Words)

4. Place were war crimes took place against top Nazi officials

5. Dictator and fascist leader of Germany during WW II

6. The US Congress authorized this before the attack on Pearl Harbor to stop the Japanese in 1940 (3 Words)

9. used to recruit women into wartime industries (3 Words)

11. medal which signifies a soldier was injured or killed in acton (2 Words)

15. Led the government to evacuate & relocate Japanese Americans during WW II (3 Words)

16. Event that brought about an end to WW II (3 Words)

17. Military leader of Japan (2 Words)

21. Its purpose was to develop an atomic boomb (2 Words)

25. It was an effort by the US to support the allies without getting into the war (3 Words)

27. What was the focus of manufacturing in the US during World War II (2 Words)

28. Establishing fixed allotments opf goods deemed essential for the military

30. its use saved American lives, shorten the war and prevented an invasion of the Japanese mainland. (2 Words)

31. computer technology was used for this during WW II (2 Words)

32. Established a totalitarian regime in Italy

33. Authorized the secret development of atomic weapons during WW II

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