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1. American general who commanded Allied forces in Africa before becoming Supreme Commander
of Allied Forces in Europe (17-3)
3. nation whose invasion triggered World War II (17-1)
4. provided economic aid to European nations attempting to rebuild after world War II (17-5)
5. Soviet city under siege for more than two years (17-2)
6. Japanese pilot on a suicide mission (17-4)
7. British prime minister who attended the Yalta Conference
with Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin (17-3)
12. name given to the 1938 unification of Austria and
Germany (17-1)
13. British prime minister who negotiated the Munich
Pact with Hitler (17-1)
17. site of Japanese attack that drew the United States
into World War II (17-2)
19. May 8, 1945 (17-4)
23. resulted in the deaths of more
than 12 million Jews,
political prisoners, Gypsies, Poles,
and other “undesirables” (17-2)
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1. site of a massive evacuation that kept
hundreds of thousands of British troops
from becoming prisoners of war (17-2)
2. nation invaded by Italy in 1935 (17-1)
8. utilized by the UK, France, and the US
to supply their people in West Berlin in
1948 (17-5)
9. acronym of the group established after World
War II to promote world peace, among other
things (17-5)
10. site of a winter battle that turned the tide of war
against Hitler on the Eastern Front (17-3)
11. June 6, 1944 (17-3)
14. site of the trials that convicted several Nazi of
war crimes (17-5)
15. resource-rich region of Czechoslovakia annexed by
Germany in 1938 (17-1)
16. nation with whom Germany made a surprising
nonaggression pact in 1939 (17-1)
18. One of Hitler's most trusted generals, sent to
command troops in North Africa (17-2)
20. site of the second atomic bombing in Japan (17-4)
21. German air force (17-2)
22. first group to successfully create and test a nuclear bomb (17-4)
24. Fascist whose rebels won the Spanish Civil War (17-1)
25. giving in to an aggressive nation in hopes of preventing war (17-1)