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Nazi doctrine of seizing land in Eastern Europe for German settlement
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LEBENSRAUM - 2 Down
Underground movements that fought Axis occupation
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RESISTANCE - 3 Across
City where leading Nazis stood trial for war crimes in 1945–46
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NUREMBERG - 4 Down
Unified armed forces of Nazi Germany: army, navy and air force
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WEHRMACHT - 5 Down
Operation ___: Germany's massive 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union
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BARBAROSSA - 6 Down
Czechoslovak region whose annexation the 1938 Munich pact allowed
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SUDETENLAND - 7 Across
1942 naval battle that turned the Pacific War in America's favour
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MIDWAY - 8 Across
The 1938 annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany
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ANSCHLUSS - 9 Down
1942 desert battle in Egypt where Montgomery beat Rommel's Panzer Army
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ALAMEIN - 10 Across
German submarine that hunted Allied convoys in the Battle of the Atlantic
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UBOAT - 11 Across
___ Project: secret US-led programme that built the first atomic bombs
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MANHATTAN - 12 Across
Soviet foreign minister whose name the 1939 pact with Ribbentrop bears
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MOLOTOV - 13 Down
February 1945 meeting where the Big Three planned post-war Europe
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YALTA - 14 Across
1930s policy of conceding to Hitler's demands to avoid war
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APPEASEMENT