At the individual level of analysis, what role did Hitler's personality play in the course of WWII?
a. It played the most crucial role in the first phase, in the decision to annex Czechoslovakia and Poland.
b. It lengthened the war because Hitler was originally pragmatic and overruled his less conservative generals, who wanted to declare war immediately.
c. His appetite and belief in his own superiority led to the mistake of declaring war against the United States.
d. His racist ideology led him to attack the Soviet Union before attacking Britain because he believed them to be of inferior bloodlines.
e. Convinced of his own genius, Hitler's personality brought failure in the second phase, due to overreach.
Question 2
Who was the eighteenth-century clergyman/economist who predicted that world population would grow faster than food supply, and unprecedented hunger, disease, and conflict would result?
a. Donnella Meadows
b. Willy Brandt
c. Thomas Malthus
d. John Foster Dulles