World War Two A-Z

Each letter of the alphabet corresponds to a WW2 event. Type in answers based on clues provided.

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	Hint	Answer
A	Pearl Harbor battleship memorial	USS Arizona
B	Belgian city that 101st Airborne held	Bastogne
C	Leader of the Nationalistic Chinese	Chiang Kai-Shek
D	First aid raid on Japan, early 1942	Doolitte Raid
E	Where Monty threw back Rommel	El Alamein
F	Spanish dictator, 1939-75	Francisco Franco
G	Turning point in the Solomon Islands	Guadalcanal
H	Site of first atom bomb explosion	Hiroshima
I	Overall leader of the IJN	Isoroku Yamamoto
J	Where the ABDA fleet was smashed off Indonesia	Java Sea
K	Manstein counterattacked here in Russia, 1943	Kharkov
L	German "living space" to the east	Lebensraum
M	French border defensives on German border	Maginot Line

	Hint	Answer
N	The Chinese city "raped" in 1937-8	Nanking
O	The last stepping stone to Japan, spring 1945	Okinawa
P	HQ of US Pacific Navy, bombed Dec. 1941	Pearl Harbor
Q	Norwegian leader who collaborated with Hitler	Vidkun Quisling
R	Japanese foward base located in New Britain	Rabaul
S	Famous British fighter plane	Spitfire
T	Bloody atoll in the Gilbert Islands	Tarawa
U	Russian operation to surround Paulus's 6th Army	Uranus
V	Stalingrad was on this river	Volga
W	Conflict between Finland and USSR	Winter War
X	Capital of China's Shaanxi province	Xi'an
Y	Crimean conference	Yalta
Z	Russian head general who captured Berlin	Georgi Zhukov