World War II: Events and Terms

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  • 1 Down 10 letters · starts with L

    Nazi doctrine of seizing land in Eastern Europe for German settlement

    Show answer LEBENSRAUM
  • 2 Down 10 letters · starts with R

    Underground movements that fought Axis occupation

    Show answer RESISTANCE
  • 3 Across 9 letters · starts with N

    City where leading Nazis stood trial for war crimes in 1945–46

    Show answer NUREMBERG
  • 4 Down 9 letters · starts with W

    Unified armed forces of Nazi Germany: army, navy and air force

    Show answer WEHRMACHT
  • 5 Down 10 letters · starts with B

    Operation ___: Germany's massive 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union

    Show answer BARBAROSSA
  • 6 Down 11 letters · starts with S

    Czechoslovak region whose annexation the 1938 Munich pact allowed

    Show answer SUDETENLAND
  • 7 Across 6 letters · starts with M

    1942 naval battle that turned the Pacific War in America's favour

    Show answer MIDWAY
  • 8 Across 9 letters · starts with A

    The 1938 annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany

    Show answer ANSCHLUSS
  • 9 Down 7 letters · starts with A

    1942 desert battle in Egypt where Montgomery beat Rommel's Panzer Army

    Show answer ALAMEIN
  • 10 Across 5 letters · starts with U

    German submarine that hunted Allied convoys in the Battle of the Atlantic

    Show answer UBOAT
  • 11 Across 9 letters · starts with M

    ___ Project: secret US-led programme that built the first atomic bombs

    Show answer MANHATTAN
  • 12 Across 7 letters · starts with M

    Soviet foreign minister whose name the 1939 pact with Ribbentrop bears

    Show answer MOLOTOV
  • 13 Down 5 letters · starts with Y

    February 1945 meeting where the Big Three planned post-war Europe

    Show answer YALTA
  • 14 Across 11 letters · starts with A

    1930s policy of conceding to Hitler's demands to avoid war

    Show answer APPEASEMENT