A Challenge to Democracy in 20th century?

1) 1930s fascism as a response to economic crises

2) soviet style "communism" and its equivalence to killing the ideals of socialist democratic harmony (an idea shared by many nations today... Denmark, sweden, even canada... as well as the provisional government of Russia in 1917)

3) hypocrisy by nations such as France, England and the United States of America... whom overthrew most of the world's governments... even those few democratically elected (Chile 1970s.. for example) ... but in essence furthering instability and a lack of fostering democracy

and 4) how these countries stifled their own democratic mechanisms.... Johnson in USA in the 1960s and Nixon in the 70s and Reagen in the 80s and well... W.Bush in 2001 if that counts.

the list goes on.