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Read chapters 16 & 17 (will be sent to assigned tutor), then choose one of the options to answer, and read the info included in the embedded links. Please respond to one other student. Option ARead these excerpts from three of Churchill’s most famous speeches. What are the themes that recur in these texts? Are they simply inspirational messages or do they convey any of the substantive issues of the conflict?http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111chur.html (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/churchill-blood.html (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1940churchill-finest.html (Links to an external site.)How does the substance of these speeches compare to FDR’s “Four Freedoms” speech (http://www.libertynet.org/edcivic/fdr.html (Links to an external site.))? What, if anything, can we learn about British and American society of this era from these documents?Option BNazi German policies led to the deaths of 6 million Jews, along with Roma, Homosexuals, Jehovah Witnesses, and other’s deemed enemies of the state. Please answer the following questions. What be

liefs about the Jewish community (Links to an external site.) did Hitler and the Nazis promote? What were the official policies (Links to an external site.)towards Jews at the beginning of the war and how did these change by the end of the war? What were the consequences of the Holocaust (Links to an external site.) – here I am looking for long-term consequences related to international politics, economic, emigration, the Jewish community, the Nuremberg Trials.Option CWhat prompted Japanese expansion? (Links to an external site.) How did Japan move to take China? What was the response from Europe? Discuss the pace of the War in the Pacific. (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)Please be careful with these sources, as they reflect anti-Japanese biases of wartime America. Why do you think countries develop negative caricatures about other countries? How is it used as part of the war effort?Option DWhat is fascism (Links to an external site.)? How does it fit into our earlier work on nationalism and imperialism? Explain the popularity (Links to an external site.) of fascism across Europe in the Post WWI era. Who does fascism target? What are its methods?