How did Western Democracies respond to Fascism?

Just look at WW2 they responded very harshly and would not tolerate it, but nowadays to keep the peace many countries just don't want to confront regimes

Explanation:

the fact that could also be added to column b is that during world war ii, specifically between the years 1941 and 1945, japan expanded its territory towards the indonesian territory in what was known later as part of the "pacific war". in that time, japan could conquer the philipines, singapore,   borneo, central java, malang, cebu, sumatra and various other islands of the area, therefore expanding its territory for a brief period of time.

your answer would be a) no nation can be economically self-sufficient.

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