ABSTRACT
Fascism, a political movement that seeks to induce the rebirth of the nation in a "new order" based on the coordination of all political, social, and cultural energies in a homogeneous national community, first arose as a radical alternative to liberalism and communism in some nation-states of the Christian world in the aftermath of the Great War (1914-1918). It went on to wreak immense destruction on human life and humanistic institutions as the ideology of Benito Mussolini's Italy and Adolf Hitler's Germany, especially during the Second World War (1939-1945).
