AP WORLD WORKING WITH EVIDENCE HELP!!! I ONLY HAVE 2 HOURS BEFORE ITS DUE PLEASE HELP

ILL HAVE THE PAGES BELOW AND THE QUESTIONS THAT FOLLOW IT (IT GOES BY READING SECTIONS LIKE READ SECTION 1 and ANSWER SECTION 1 QUESTIONS AND DO THE SAME FOR THE REST OF THE SECTIONS)

QUESTIONS:

Source 12.4

Section 1

1. Does this passage use "racial science" in a manner similar to Hitler's, or does it better resemble the less extreme nationalism popular in many parts of the world at the time?
2. To what extent does the role of the emperor described in this section represent a continuity with political ideas articulated since the Meiji period?

Section 2

1. How similar is this theory of the relationship between the government and the governed to the political theory Hitler expressed in Mein Kampf?
2. Analyze the extent to which the ideas expressed in the Cardinal Principles and Hitler's ideas as expressed in Mein Kampf were similar.

BOOK:

570 CHAPTER 12 . MILESTONES OF THE PAST CENTURY, 1900-1950 SOURCE 12.4 The Japanese Way In the Japanese language, the word kokufai is an evocative term that refers to the national essence or the fundamental character of the Japanese nation and people. Drawing both on long-established understandings and on recently developed nationalist ideas, the Min- istry of Education in 1937 published a small volume, widely distributed in schools and homes throughout the country, titled Kokutai No Hongi (Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan). That text, excerpted in Source 12.4. defined the uniqueness of Japan and articulated the philosophical foundation of its authoritarian regime. When the Ameri- cans occupied a defeated and devastated Japan in 1945, they forbade the further distri- bution of the book. Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan | 1937 Section 1 [The foreign ideologies imported into our coun- own is the rationale of making our historical "life" try are in the main ideologies of the [ European] live in the present. .. . Enlightenment. . . . The views of the world and Loyalty means to reverence the Emperor as of life that form the basis of these ideologies . . . [our] pivot and to follow him implicitly. .. . Hence. lay the highest value on, and assert the liberty and offering our lives for the sake of the Emperor does equality of, individuals. ... not mean so-called self-sacrifice, but the casting We subjects [of the Japanese emperor] are aside of our little selves to live under his august intrinsically quite different from the so-called citi- grace and the enhancing of the genuine life of zens of the Occidental [Western] countries. ... the people of a State. .. . An individual is an exis- Our country is established with the Emperor. tence belonging to the State and her history, which . . . For this reason, to serve the Emperor and to forms the basis of his origin, and is fundamentally receive the Emperor's great august Will as one's one body with it. .. . Section 2 We must sweep aside the corruption of the spirit Through loyalty are we become Japanese subjects and the clouding of knowledge that arises from set- in loyalty do we obtain life and herein do we find ting up one's "self" and from being taken up with the source of all morality. one's "self" and return to a pure and clear state of mind that belongs intrinsically to us as subjects, and thereby fathom the great principle loyalty. . .. Source: J. O. Gauntlet, tran, and R. K. Fall, ed, Kokwas Ne Hme Indeed, loyalty is our fundamental Way as (Cardinal Principles of the National Fundity of Japan) (C'ambridge. MA subject, and is the basis of our national morality. Harvard University Press, 1949). 52, 80-84