Germany and Italy populations embraced fascism and rewarded votes for their election throughout the 30's, why

Answer 1

For starters, they were not Constitutional Republics. Our Separation of Powers should operate to keep the US from becoming a rule by the mob, which must occur before a tyrant can step in and take power.

I think our 4 year presidential terms keep one President from amassing enough power to become a dictator. Even when he is reelected.

I am currently more concerned about the angry mob mentality I see growing among our young than I am about our leadership, which is still as diverse as it is supposed to be. I would like to see the Democratic leadership offer a cohesive plan to its membership, other than the current plan of negativity.

Answer 2

When we consider the histories of Germany and Italy in the period since unification, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that the strains of rapid modernization coupled with the failure to consolidate a functioning parliamentary democracy in both countries before the Great War played an important role in enabling fascists to destabilize those regimes after wards. In Germany, for example, rightists had little need to organize in political parties before the war, as the democratically-elected Reich stag possessed very few powers of its own. In Italy, a restricted franchise was in place for far longer, and parliamentary politics was far more a matter of elite patronage and clientelism than of partisan or ideological confrontation. As parliamentary politics resumed after Versailles -- this time with universal suffrage in Italy and a democratic regime in Germany -- right-wing political leaders lacked stable and stabilizing bases of mass support. Instead of right-wing voters being mobilized by established formations like the British Conservative Party, long resigned to the need to contest periodic elections, the right-wing political scene in Germany and Italy was more fluid, and the political and economic chaos of the postwar years threw up opportunities upon which the fascist movements were swift to capitalize.

Answer 3

The World's economic situation in the late twenties was dire, stock market collapses, global inflation, runaway market devaluation.

The populations in both countries were still reeling from post WWI recessions, when the market collapses hit further devastating their respective economies which could not control inflation.

The net result was their currencies were essential defunct, and not worth the paper they were printed on. It got too expensive to live, people became desperate.

Desperate people do desperate things. Fascist leaders played upon the fears of their respective nations, and pandered to their needs.

Starving people tied their votes to new political entities that weren't the same as the ones who have recently failed them.

They made poor choices, but we only know that now as we know "hindsight is 20/20"

Answer 4

Because they promised 3 square and a cot,also by rearming to get even with the Allies that had defeated them back in WW1!They even sometimes were able to deliver on the promises,albeit at the expense of Jews and other Minorities whom they felt stood in their way.Also due to the perceived fear of Soviet Communism trying to take control of their respective nations.Fascism plays on the fears of the populace:people in desperate times are willing to do desperate things to survive.

Answer 5

At the end of WWI and during the world-wide depression, the economies of both countries were devastated. Like the liberals do in the US, all kinds of promises were made to the voters. When the tyrants got elected, things changed.

Answer 6

Because the scare tactics that fascist use work just like what the republicans of the USA do.

Answer 7

complex reasons, but nobody should underestimate the fear of Communism that existed in Europe post 1917.