: One central idea of the passage is that Americans' A) wariness of their elected representatives has led to poor judgment on the part of citizens and to inferior candidates for public office. B) distrust of both their fellow citizens and foreigners means that Americans will remain insular and unrefined. C) perceptiveness and independence have enabled Americans to be astute judges of their elected officials. AND) suspiciousness of their politicians has undermined the government and contributed to widespread instability.

1. how did conditions in germany and europe at the end of world war i contribute to the rise and triumph of nazism in germany? 2. how did the german government under nazi rule build support among the german people? 3. how did nazi germany gradually isolate, segregate, impoverish, and incarcerate jews and persecute other perceived enemies of the state between 1933 and 1939? 4. how did the nazis lead germany to war in europe and, with their collaborators, kill millions—including systematically murdering six million jewish people? 5. why is learning about the holocaust important? so we don’t repeat history.