NAZISM AND THE RISE OF HITLER

Read the sources given below and answer the questions that follow : Source A — Reconstruction Japan was expanding its power in the east. It had occupied French Indo-China and was planning attacks on US naval bases in the Pacifi c. When Japan extended its support to Hitler and bombed the US base at Pearl Harbor, the US entered the Second World War.

Source B — Establishment of the Racial State Until medieval times Jews were barred from owning land. They survived mainly through trade and money lending. They lived in separately marked areas called ghettos. They were often persecuted through periodic organised violence, and expulsion from the land.

Source C — The Nazi Cult of Motherhood While boys were taught to be aggressive, masculine and steel hearted, girls were told that they had to become good mothers and rear pure-blooded Aryan children. Girls had to maintain the purity of the race, distance themselves from Jews, look after the home, and teach their children Nazi values. They had to be the bearers of the Aryan culture and race.