APUSH WWII Vocabulary

Overall, the Battle of Britain is considered to be

•  A victory for Germany
• A victory for Britain
• A victory for neither
•  A minor conflict

 What was the “London Blitz”?

• Germany’s plan for a blitzkrieg on London
• A term used for Germany’s bombing campaign on London
• A series of German missile attacks late in the war
• A series of German missile attacks late in the war

Which best describes Germany’s standard invasion strategy at the beginning of World War II?

• Attack with a combination of speed and overwhelming force
• Intimidate the enemy by first amassing a large force along the enemy’s border
• Begin with acts of sabotage behind enemy lines
• Draw out battles for as long as possible to wear the enemy out

^{This map depicts the results of what presidential action/policy?}

• lend/lease
• watchful waitedness
• internment
• isolationism

"The Committee finds, under the head of sales methods of the munitions companies, that almost without exception, the American munitions companies investigated have at times resorted to such unusual approaches, questionable favors and commissions, and methods of "doing the needful" as to constitute, in effect, a form of bribery of foreign governmental officials or of their close friends in order to secure business.

The committee realizes that these were field practices by the agents of the companies, and were apparently in many cases part of a level of competition set by foreign companies, and that the heads of the American companies were, in cases, apparently unaware of their continued existence and shared the committee's distaste and disapprobation of such practices.

The committee accepts the evidence that the same practices are resorted to by European munitions companies, and that the whole process of selling arms abroad thus, in the words of a Colt agent, has "brought into play the most despicable side of human nature; lies, deceit, hypocrisy, greed, and graft occupying a most prominent part in the transactions."

What prominent historical phrase was created from the report from which this excerpt is taken?

• "cash and carry"
• "merchants of death"
• "lend lease"
• "arsenal of democracy"

^{The political cartoonist questioned what long standing theme in United States' foreign policy?}

• isolationism
• racism
• internationalism
• interventionism

Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 because Japanese Americans

• ^{had publicly supported the Japanese government.}
• had offered asylum to Japanese sailors fleeing Hawaii.
• were not protected under the U.S. Constitution.
• because of concerns of future acts of espionage to aid Japan

President Truman justified the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan by

• claiming that America was at risk of being invaded.
• arguing that communists would abuse the technology if they found it first.
• explaining the monetary cost of the project to build the bomb.
• estimating loss of American lives if Japan was invaded

This was a new type of warfare that the Germans used to run through France and Poland in the early parts of WWII

• blitzkrieg
• atomic war
• kristallnacht
• total war

^{This was created by Congress to fight the threat of inflation}

• Office of Price Administration
• War Production Board
• Selective Service Act
• United Nations