Fascism in Europe during the 1920s and 1930s can best be described as a form of totalitarianism. It elevated the state above the individual.
America wanted to insulate itself from europe in the 1920's and 1930's because of the establishment of communism in the soviet union and the emergence of fascism
Because they were bored.
Fascism existed in Italy under Benito Mussolini's rule in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.
Fascism
Fascism
pusuit of classless society
Europe was recovering from the destruction of World War I.
Italy, during the 1920s. It soon spread, and throughout the 1930s and 1940s several countries adopted their own unique forms of it (Such as National Socialism in Germany and Falangism in Spain).
When most people hear the word ``fascism,'' they naturally think of its ugly racism and anti-Semitism as practiced by the totalitarian regimes of Mussolini and Hitler. But there was also an economic policy component of fascism, known in Europe during the 1920s and '30s as ``corporatism,'' that was an essential ingredient of economic totalitarianism as practiced by Mussolini and Hitler. So-called corporatism was adopted in Italy and Germany during the l930s and was held up as a ``model'' by quite a few intellectuals and policy makers in the United States and Europe. A version of economic fascism was in fact adopted in the United States in the 1930s and survives to this day. In the United States these policies were not called ``fascism'' but ``planned capitalism.'' The word fascism may no longer be politically acceptable, but its synonym, ``industrial policy,'' is as popular as ever.
Totalitarian regimes were taking over in several nations
During the 1920s
Fascism was invented in the late 19th century, but it was founded in France. The idea only arrived in Italy or Spain in the early 20th century and only had strong political influence in the 1920s (in Italy) and the 1930s (in Spain).