What is the significance of fascism to World war 2?

Answer 1

The significance of fascism is the impact it has had on millions of lives. One of most widely known examples of fascism is the with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany. The effects of the Horror endured by people of that generation still remain today.

Answer 2

Fascism was the political ideology that motivated the dictatorships of Germany, Italy, Japan in the 1930s and 1940s. It was primarily responsible for starting World War II, both in Europe and in Asia because of its expansionist, irridentist, and militaristic views.

Fascism Definition
Fascist States, of which Nazi Germany was a subset, are states built on a strong traditional, militaristic, and corporatist outlook. Fascist States are ruled by a charismatic dictator and his political party. There is an embrace of strict legal doctrine and segregation, the use of violence in the civilian sphere to enforce the law and to discourage the intellectual, prompting of violent conquests, hostility to modernity, xenophobia and hatred of minorities, the use of national Propaganda to promote irridentism towards past empires, sexual repression, and the arts and literature are seen as effeminate and degenerate. In terms of Corporatism, Fascists allow businesses to function as independently-owned monopolies, whose monopoly is protected by the state in exchange for permitting government direction. Some individuals also consider Islamism (Political Islam) to be a form of Fascism.

Answer 3

The goverment basis of the axis powers, primarily Germany, Italy, and Japan.