World Wars Crossword Puzzle

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