ESSAY, IMPROPER ANSWERS WILL BE REPORTED Nazi Germany was a totalitarian state—a state where the ruling party attempted to achieve total control over the political, cultural, and economic life of its citizens.

Develop an argument that evaluates the extent to which totalitarianism led to EITHER Germany’s early victories OR the eventual defeat of Germany in the Second World War.

In your response, you should do the following:

-Respond to the prompt with a historically defensible thesis or claim that establishes a line of reasoning
-Describe a broader historical context relevant to the prompt
-Use specific and relevant evidence to support an argument in response to the prompt
-Use historical reasoning (e. g., comparison, causation, or continuity or change) to frame or structure an argument that addresses the prompt
-Use evidence to corroborate, qualify, or modify an argument that addresses the prompt

Imagine that you have completed your paper. the following are two paragraphs you have written that contain direct quotations from your sources. below each paragraph is the source used. for each source, use mla style to create the correct in-text citation and place it in the correct place within the paragraph. gandhi did not grow up wealthy. of his family, he recalled, “my father never had any ambition to accumulate riches and left us very little property. he had no education, save that of experience.” like his father, gandhi became someone who valued experience over money. the quotation is taken from page 2 of this source: gandhi, mahatma. the story of my experiments with truth. 1927. new york: dover publications, 1983. print. gandhi’s experiences abroad taught him a great deal, but they certainly did not make him rich. according to indian scholar e.s. reddy, “…on january 9, 1915, m. k. gandhi returned to bombay after 21 years in exile, wearing a loin cloth and travelling from london in the lowest class of the ship.” few people suspected that this unassuming man would become one of the most powerful and beloved leaders in history. the quotation is taken from page 1 of this source: reddy, e.s. gandhi’s vision of a free south africa. hyderabad, india: sangam books, ltd. 1995. print.