World Wars Crossword Puzzle

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World Wars Crossword Puzzle

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  • maginot : line of forts and obstacles built by france after ww1 to defend against germany
  • fat man : nickname for the second atom bomb dropped on japan
  • little boy : nickname for the first atom bomb
  • himmler : head of the ss and main architect of the holocaust
  • utah : code name another of the 5 beaches at normandy
  • bismarck : powerful german battleship sunk by the british in may of 1941
  • omaha : code name of one of the 5 landing beaches in normandy
  • trench : type of warfare widely used in ww1
  • kursk : the largest tank battle in history
  • mustard : type of poison gas used during ww1 in belgium and france
  • midway : first naval victory over japan in the pacific
  • overlord : operation name for d-day
  • lusitania : ship that was sunk that drew the us closer to joining ww1
  • barbarossa : hitler's operation name for the invasion of russia
  • ottoman : empire that joined germany in ww1
  • dachau : the first nazi concentration camp opened in 1933
  • somme : 5 month battle of ww1 that resulted in 1.5 million casualties
  • rhine : us troops found a bridge over this river to cross into germany in 1945
  • gold : code name for one of the 5 landing beaches in normandy
  • marne : ww1 battle that saved paris
  • tojo : japanese prime minister that approved the bombing of pearl harbor
  • tarawa : pacific battle that led to more loss of american marines in 76 hours than in guadalcanal
  • enigma : famous german coding machine that was supposed to be unsolvable
  • petain : french general despised as a traitor for running nazi occupied france
  • lenin : russian revolutionary that pulled russia out of ww1