World War II

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. A nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (10)
  2. 5. Italian fascist dictator (9)
  3. 7. North American republic containing 50 ___ - 48 conterminous ___ in North America plus Alaska (12)
  4. 10. Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state (6)
  5. 11. An act of mass destruction and loss of life (9)
  6. 12. European country whose capital is Berlin (7)
  7. 13. A port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan (9)
  8. 15. A speaker who ___ to a secretary or a recording machine (8)

Down

  1. 1. A former province of northwestern France on the English channel (8)
  2. 2. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia (11)
  3. 3. United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany (10)
  4. 6. A ___ on Oahu to the west of Honolulu (11)
  5. 8. Elected vice president in Roosevelt's 4th term (6)
  6. 9. German Nazi dictator during World War II (6)
  7. 14. Boot-shaped country in Europe famous for pasta (5)