World War Two was probably the most destructive conflict in the history of humanity. It resulted from the instability of the world democracies and its failured and slided into totalitarianism. By the end of World War Two, Fascism is discredited as unappealing and a ideological pariah. The Axis powers were Great Britain and its colonies, Germany, and Japan. Italy stayed neutral until the late stages of the war. On the Allied side were Russia, France, China, Iran, Kurdistan, and Turkey. Yugoslavia(plus Bulgaria), Hungary and Romania joined the Allied side in the mid stages of the war, having been invaded by Germany.