The First World War devastated both the allies. Many European governments lost their power. People were in misery. Unemployment, poverty and inflation gnawed their entire system. Fascism in Italy and Nazism in Germany rose to power, capitalizing on the political and economic destruction, rivalry against the victors, aimlessness etc. facilitated these forces to grab power.
Fascism and Nazism were geared for war and expansion. Both regimes started from a vision of a world of narrowing opportunities in which nations and races had to struggle, expand, or die. Nazism was the German version of fascism Hitler adopted and aggressive foreign policy and attacked Austria and Czechoslovakia. Alliances with Italy and Japan was formed, our countries opposed this which led to the Second world war.
