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First years were characterized by repression against anti-fascist ideologies deep censorship and suppression of democratic institutions

Nazi Germany faced multiple losses and offensives from 1943 to 1945

Mussolini was removed as head of government and arrested in 1943 after Italy faced military failures reliance on Germany Allied invasion and humiliation

Hopes faded when Czechoslovakia was dissolved by proclamation of German client state of Slovakia followed by occupation of Czech Lands

Historian Robert Paxton observes that one of main problems in defining fascism is that it was widely mimicked

Jean-Yves Camus and Nicolas Lebourg say neo-fascist ideology emerged in 1942 after Nazi Germany invaded USSR and reoriented propaganda on Europeanist ground

Francisco Franco's Falangist one-party state in Spain was officially neutral during World War II

Italy assisted Germany in resolving diplomatic crisis between Germany Britain and France over claims on Czechoslovakia by arranging Munich Agreement

Fascist Italy created the Institute for Industrial Reconstruction a giant state-owned firm and holding company that provided state funding to failing private enterprises

In the Americas the Brazilian Integralists led by Plínio Salgado claimed as many as 200000 members although following coup attempts it faced a crackdown from the Estado Novo of Getúlio Vargas in 1937

Gyula Gömbös created an eight-hour work day and a forty-eight-hour work week in industry sought to entrench a corporatist economy and pursued irredentist claims on Hungary's neighbors

The fascist Iron Guard movement in Romania soared in political support after 1933 gaining representation in the Romanian government and an Iron Guard member assassinated Romanian prime minister Ion Duca

Fascist propaganda blamed the problems of the 1930s depression on minorities and scapegoats

Italian Fascists sought to settle 10 to 15 million Italians in Libya

In 1920s Fascist Italy pursued aggressive foreign policy that included ambitions to expand Italian territory.

In response to revolt in Italian colony of Libya Fascist Italy abandoned previous liberal-era colonial policy of cooperation with local leaders.

Adolf Hitler modeled himself and the Nazi Party upon Mussolini and the Fascists after the March on Rome

In Peru the Revolutionary Union was a fascist political party which was in power 1931 to 1933

Pacification of Libya resulted in mass killings use of concentration camps and forced starvation of thousands of people

Nazis attempted a March on Berlin which resulted in the failed Beer Hall Putsch in Munich in November 1923