World War II

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. A city in southern Japan on Kyushu (8)
  2. 6. An act of mass destruction and loss of life (9)
  3. 7. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (12)
  4. 9. Italian fascist dictator (9)
  5. 11. A policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power (11)
  6. 12. Emperor of Japan who renounced his divinity and became a constitutional monarch after Japan (8)
  7. 13. A state of political hostility that existed from 1945 until 1990 between countries led by (7)
  8. 15. A friendly nation (plural) (6)

Down

  1. 1. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes (4)
  2. 2. A region in northeastern China (9)
  3. 3. A port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan (9)
  4. 5. 32nd President of the United States (9)
  5. 8. The intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people (12)
  6. 10. A nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (10)
  7. 11. British statesman and leader during World War II (9)
  8. 14. A straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions (4)