Hitler's Racist Ideology As The Primary Cause Of WWII

This historical analysis will define the rise of fascist ideology in the Axis powers as the primary cause of World War II. The rise of global fascist ideology was important cause of WWII because of the growing sense of nationalism in japan, Germany, and Italy in the 1930s. In Germany, the desire of Hitler’s Nazi Party sought to expand Germany’s geographical borders and to utilize military might through dictatorial rule. Japan’s own nationalist form of militarism could be seen in the colonial attack on China, which resulted in Nanking massacre in 1937-1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese war. Hitler’s fascist ideology was primarily taken from Mussolini and the nationalist militarism of the Black Shirts, which allowed the German brown Shirts
This form of cultural and racial intolerance was a foundation for global fascism, since it provided a means in which to utilize the police state and increased militarization in order to expand its borders and increase its dominance throughout Europe: “In this way, prescribed for them by history, Germany and Italy wish, in a world of unrest and disintegration, to carry out the assignment of making safe the foundations of European culture” (para.3). During the 1930s, Mussolini would become an icon for fascist ideology, which inevitably inspired Hitler to form the Aryan ideology as a motive for increased nationalism and militarism. More so, the Italo-German Alliance was another global link between fascist nations that would eventually embrace Japanese fascism as part of this larger Axis of powers before
Under the leadership of Emperor Hirohito, the rise of military industrialism and extreme nationalism led to a colonial expansion of Japan into China and the Soviet Union. In the 1930s, japan aggressively attacked China in the Second Sino-Japanese War, which resulted in many millions of Chinese killed by the vastly superior military of the Japanese Navy and Army. The Nanking Massacre defines a culmination of the extreme nationalism and racist hatred of the Chinese people, which resulted in the rape, torture, and mutilation of Chinese women, men, and children in 1937-1938: ”Based on estimates made by historians and charity organizations in the city at the time, between 250,000 and 300,000 people were killed, many of them women and children” (“Scarred by History” para.1). In this scenario, the horrific brutality of Japanese aggression provides an important example of the increasing levels of fascism that were emanating from Emperor Hirohito and his generals during the Nanking Massacre. This unbridled form of wartime atrocity reveals the fascist element of Japan’s rise to power in the 1930s that resulted in the mass killing of Chinese and Russian people by a powerful military force. In this manner, Hitler and Mussolini’s fascism could also be seen in the popularity of nationalism and military industrialism that would bind