You have to answer these questions from a specific textbook and documents.

What do the documents tell us about fascism and its ideology?

How did the ideologies of fascism and Nazism lead to the Holocaust?

What counterarguments were made to combat the spread of fascism and Nazism?

What does the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki tell us about the development of total war?

Using the evidence from the documents and text; answer the question: Can the Holocaust and the dropping of the atomic bombs be called war crimes? Why or why not?

The textbook is Forging the modern world also use these documents

Benito Mussolini: What is Fascism, 1932

http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/mussolini-fasci… (Links to an external site.)

The 25 Points 1920: An Early Nazi Program

http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/25points.asp (Links to an external site.)

Selections from Der Stuermer, edited by Julius Streicher

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/streicher-talm… (Links to an external site.)

Franklin Roosevelt: Four Freedoms Speech, January 6, 1941

https://fdrlibrary.org/four-freedoms (Links to an external site.)

The Atlantic Charter

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/wwii/atlantic.asp (Links to an external site.)

Heinrich Himmler: Speech to SS Group Leaders at Posen (Links to an external site.), October 4 1943

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-… (Links to an external site.)

Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz: Testimony at Nuremburg, 1946

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1946hoess.asp (Links to an external site.)

Hermann Friedrich Graebe: Account of Holocaust Mass Shooting, 1942

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1942graebe.asp (Links to an external site.)

President Harry S. Truman: Decision to drop the atomic bombs

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http://www.doug-long.com/hst.htm (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/correspondence-between-harry-s-truman-and-samuel-cavert (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/harry-s-truman-richard-russell (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/draft-statement-dropping-bomb (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/harry-s-truman-roman-bohnen (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/online-collections/decision-to-drop-atomic-bomb (Links to an external site.)

Japanese Eyewitness accounts

https://www.inicom.com/hibakusha/ (Links to an external site.)