1. German word describing an attack
of overwhelming force and rapid
speed.
8. Name of the plane that dropped
the atomic bomb on Hiroshima,
Japan on August 6, 1945.
11. Discrimination against Jewish
people.
12. Coalition including Germany,
Italy, and Japan during WWII.
13. Leader of Free France, the French
government-in-exile established in
London in 1940.
14. Southern Russian city which was
the scene of a brutal battle between
Germany and the USSR.
16. Founder and leader of the
National Fascist Party in Italy.
19. Region of France where D-Day
occurred.
24. Famous military leader of the
Allied forces in the Philippine Islands.
25. Germany fought this country on
the eastern front of WWII.
26. Country which Germany attacked
beginning World War II.
27. Leader of Germany during World
War II.
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1. Germany’s last major offensive on
the Western Front in WWII, Battle of
the ___.
2. Japanese city where the US
dropped the atomic bomb first.
3. Leader of the United Kingdom
during World War II.
4. Country invaded and occupied by
Germany until the Allies responded
on D-Day.
5. The organized killing of European Jews
and others by the Nazis during WWII.
6. Leader of the Soviet Union during World
War II.
7. Second Japanese city to be targeted by
an atomic bomb.
9. German general in North Africa
nicknamed The Desert Fox.
10. Extreme right-wing political doctrine
started by Mussolini.
13. Code name for the Allied invasion of
coastal France in June of 1944.
15. Secret agreement signed by Roosevelt
and Churchill in 1941, the ___ Charter.
17. US naval base attacked by the Japanese
on December 7, 1941.

18. US naval victory over the Japanese
in June of 1942 that marked a turning
point in the war, Battle of the ___.
19. Far-right political party in
Germany active between 1920 and
1945.
20. Leader of the US during World
War II.
21. Became president after Franklin D.
Roosevelt died in 1945.
22. American initiative enacted
in 1948 to provide foreign aid to
Western Europe after WWII: The ___
Plan.
23. Coalition including Great Britain,
the US, and the Soviet Union during
WWII.