Impact of Fascism

To control the Parliament, Mussolini modified the legislation. Except for his own,
he disbanded all political parties. Fascists started terrorizing rivals. Mussolini
attempted to make Italy a global power by progressively overhauling the
previous administration's feeble foreign policy. Italy must expand its territory
due to its growing population and the requirement for raw materials for
industrial growth. In 1937, Mussolini consented to join the German and
Japanese Anti-Communist Pact. Thus, the Berlin-Tokyo-Rome Axis was
established. Under the Fascist government, Italy's industry and agriculture
achieved significant advancements.

The rise of Nazism in Germany

Hitler was born in Austria in 1889 and grew up in poverty. He enlisted in the
army when during the First World War. Later he was frightened by the German
loss and enraged by the Versailles Treaty. He joined a little organization named
the German Workers' Party in 1919. Later, he gained control of the group and
changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers' Party. The Nazi
Party was the name given to this group. Nazism rose to prominence as a
widespread movement during the Great Depression.

Causes of the rise of Nazism

 Germany was defeated spiritually and monetarily by the war and the Peace Agreement.
 France's ongoing hostility, the disputes over the Ruhr, the occupation of the Rhineland, and
the Saar, and the required reparations all contributed to this.
 Many Germans saw the Republic's acceptance of unjust limitations, the policy of
reconciliation, and unwillingness to assert itself more forcefully in international affairs to be
deeply offensive.
 Nazi propaganda techniques, oratory, posters, flags, songs, uniforms, ceremonies, rituals,
discipline, historical traditions, and ideologies of German racial supremacy were used to
profit from these circumstances.

Impact of Nazism
 Germany's citizens were directly and severely impacted by Nazi authority, while Europe and
the rest of the globe were indirectly affected but paralysed.
 After seizing absolute control both inside and outside his party, Hitler decided to eliminate all
resistance. Germany under Hitler became a totalitarian state.
 The core of the Nazi philosophy was nihilism, eroding the moral character of the individual.
It resulted in the persecution of Jews.
 Hitler took credit for the “economic miracle” that had occurred when he came to power in
1934, and the economy had improved.