What is fascism? Both the Germans and the Japanese developed politics in the 1930s that deeply challenged the parliamentary and democratic traditions that developed in England, France, and the United States.
Some historians have called the kind of political organization in these countries Totalitarianism and have included the government Stalin formed in the USSR as well.
What do you believe these historians meant by totalitarianism? What are the similarities between what the Japanese, Germans, and Soviets believed? What are the differences?