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Quiz for Working with Evidence: Ideologies of the Axis Powers

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Source 20.1: Hitler on Nazism: Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), 1925-1926

Source 20.2: The Japanese Way: Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan, 1937

Choose the best answer to each question.

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1. What type of political system does Hitler advocate in Mein Kampf (My Struggle) (Source 20.1)?

A representative democracy where only “pure race” Aryans have the right to vote

Rule by people of unusual talent who are counseled but left to make decisions on their own

A direct democracy by plebiscite where only “pure race” Aryans have the right to vote

Rule by a hereditary monarch who is counseled but left to make his own decisions

1. What type of political system does Hitler advocate in Mein Kampf (My Struggle) (Source 20.1)?

Question

2. Which pattern of European thinking does Adolf Hitler embrace in Mein Kampf (My Struggle) (Source 20.1)?

Parliamentary democracy

Marxist thought

Enlightenment human rights

Social Darwinism

2. Which pattern of European thinking does Adolf Hitler embrace in Mein Kampf (My Struggle) (Source 20.1)?

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3. Which feature of Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan (Source 20.2) would Adolf Hitler likely have embraced?

A hereditary emperor as leader

Constructive borrowing from other societies

The emphasis on the submission of the individual to the state

The racial superiority of the Japanese

3. Which feature of Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan (Source 20.2) would Adolf Hitler likely have embraced?

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4. Which statement best summarizes the national essence of Japan as laid out in Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan (Source 20.2)?

“The Way of the subjects exists where the entire nation serves the Emperor united in mind.”

“Our nation has in the past imported, assimilated, and sublimated Chinese and Indian ideologies . . . .”

“The views of the world and of life that form the basis of these ideologies . . . lay the highest value on, and assert the liberty and equality of, individuals . . . .”

“The State is only a means to an end . . . . Above all, it must preserve the existence of the race . . . .”

4. Which statement best summarizes the national essence of Japan as laid out in Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan (Source 20.2)?

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5. What code is held up in Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan (Source 20.2) as “an outstanding characteristic of our national morality” because it “developed in a spirit of self-effacement and meeting death with a perfect calmness”?

Filial piety

Kokutai

The Meiji restoration

Bushido