| ENIWETOK | Pacific Ocean atoll taken by the US from Japan in 1944 that later became a testing ground for atomic weapons |
| MURUROA | Pacific Ocean atoll used by France as a nuclear test site |
| SANDWICHISLANDS | Pacific Ocean atoll now comprising the state of Hawaii |
| TARAWA | Atoll taken in WWII |
| EMPORIUM | Atoll in the Pacific Ocean taken by the US from Japan in 1944 which later became a testing ground for atomic weapons (8) |
| ENEWETAK | Official name for an atoll in the Marshall Islands- a US testing ground for atomic weapons (8) |
| CHUBB | Charles ___, blacksmith who founded a ship's ironmongery that later became a locksmith selling a lock patented by his brother Jeremiah (5) |
| FORYOURLOVE | Song by Graeme Gouldman that later became a hit for The Yardbirds (3,4,4) |
| IWOJIMA | Pacific island taken by the US in 1945 and returned to Japan in 1968 |
| PENN | William, English Quaker leader and founder of a colony that later became a U.S. state (4) |
| LVIV | ____ and Vilnius were the largest cities in the Second Polish Republic that later became cities of the USSR |
| DUMBARTONOAKS | Historic estate in Washington, DC that was the scene of conferences in 1944 that led to the creation of the United Nations (9,4) |
| YELLOWSUBMARINE | "Revolver" song that later became a movie |
| TSUSHIMA | Name of the archipelago off the coast of southeastern Japan in the Korea Strait. In 1905 a Russian fleet was defeated by Japan in a battle of the same name, which took place north of the islands. (8) |
| MONCK | Originally Cromwell's commander-in-chief in Scotland, the Devon-born soldier who later became a key figure in negotiating the restoration of the monarchy to Charles II in 1660 (5) |
| OFFICE | General Post -; service officially established by Charles II in 1660 that later became known as the Royal Mail (6) |
| STRANGEFRUIT | Poem of protest written by Abel Meeropol and sung by Billie in 1939 that later became an anthem of change: 2 wds. |
| SUMER | Ancient region of SW Asia that later became Babylonia, located in the southernmost part of Mesopotamia in modern-day Iraq (5) |
| SUMERIAN | Relating to one of the first great civilisations, in the area that later became Babylonia (8) |
| OKINAWA | Coral island of Japan administered by the US from 1945-72 |
