World War II Crossword

Period of limited fighting in the opening months of WWII
Hitler's airforce
"Lightning Warfare"
A German tank
It survived a three-year siege
Hitler lost his entire Sixth Army here
Norwegian Nazi collaborator
WWII began with the invasion of ...
Operation ... - plan to invade Britain by sea
Operation ... - success in this was necessary before X Across could take place
Victory in this was the RAF's "finest hour"
Hitler wanted to invade the USSR to gain ...
Nightly bombing raids on British cities - the ...
Hitler invaded Norway and .... to protect his supply of iron ore from neutral Sweden
Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg - the ... countries ... all fell to the Nazis within a few days in May 1940
Hitler invaded France through Belgium by coming through the hilly ... region
A major evacuation from this Channel port took place in June 1940
He stepped down as Prime Minister to let Churchill take over
This policy of allowing Hitler to do what he wanted in an effort to avoid war, had failed
President of the USA until April 1945
Also known as Il Duce, he dragged Italy into the war in June 1940
Pipe Line Under The Ocean
Codename for the giant, artificial harbours towed to France after D-Day
D-Day was Day 1 of Operation ...
The invasion of the USSR - Operation ...
The Battle of the ... - last ditch attempt to break through Allied lines in the Winter of 1944
The Southern part of France was left as a puppet state under Pétain - ... France
Stalin's greatest general
Great German general defeated at El Alamein
He won a great victory at El Alamein in 1942
Supreme Allied Commander for D-Day
This technology helped the RAF defeat the Luftwaffe
The most famous British plane of WWII
Infamous German dive-bombing plane
Surprise Japanese attack on the USA happened here in 1941
Great American naval victory in 1942
The only German Field Marshall ever captured in battle
The Americans landed at Utah and ... beaches on D-Day
The British and Canadians landed at Gold, Sword and ... beaches on D-Day
The USSR lost 6,000 tanks at Minsk and ... in 1941
These killing squads were sent into the USSR to murder Jews and Communists
Operation ... , Soviet offensive in the East to coincide with D-Day but many times the size of it
The Allies were held up at this old Italian monastery for four months and lost 50,000 casualties as a result
The largest tank battle in history was fought here in 1943
The Winter War of 1939 - 1949 saw the USSR invade ...
... Line - defences along the French border
The German Army
Germany, Italy and Japan were known as the ... Powers
Freedom or Resistance fighters, active behind German lines
He liberated Yugoslavia without any outside help
The opposite of Collaboration