The reason that World War II started in the European and Asian theaters, was that Germany and Japan hated the Treaty of Versailles. It put limitations on their military and made them give back the land that they had conquered during World War I. So they decided to take back what was “rightfully theirs” and went against the treaty. Germany decided to blitzkrieg Poland, and Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, which resulted in the United States fighting back.
During World War II, most of the European theater used fascism; however most of Asia did not. In Europe, Italian ruler Benito Mussolini and Germany ruler Adolf Hitler adopted something like fascism to dictate their countries. Some say that fascism is only associated with Mussolini and Italian government, however, Adolf Hitler forcibly suppressed opposition and criticism, and emphasized an aggressive nationalism and racism, so he is a fascist. The Soviet Union (Joseph Stalin) used communism, which is a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. Japan used a different type of fascism. They were aggressive to the American POWs, but didn’t have a democracy. The rest of the Allied forces (not including the Soviet Union) did not use fascism.
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In Germany, however, POWs were treated generally fair. There was some scarcity of food, but when POWs worked, they were usually compensated and the International Red Cross gave them some medical