Many fascist leaders such as Adolf Hitler seized power in Europe by taking advantage of the hurt that citizens felt after WWI, especially in Germany.
Hitler was a veteran of WWI, and was disgusted at how weak his country had become after the implementation of the Treaty of Versailles. Germany was in ruins, and the people were suffering, so Hitler came in and offered the people a way to get back to their place of power.
Through popular political tactics, and intimidation by the street soldiers of the fascist parties who went out and burned buildings and terrorized citizens, fascists were voted into power, and then took over the government, establishing their regimes.
<em>I think the answer is</em> instituting universal military mobilization
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The policy contributed most to the nuclear arms race was Mutual Assured Destruction
This means that both sides knew that any attack upon the other would be devastating to themselves, therefore restraining them from attacking the other. Each side possesses enough nuclear weapons to obliterate the other side that causes them to restrain from attacking afraid of the annihilation.