World Wars Crossword Puzzle
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QUESTIONS LIST:
- 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