USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Italy was the first Axis partner to give up. In late July 1943, leaders of the Italian Fascist Party deposed and arrested Fascist leader and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Italy surrendered to the Allies on September 8, 1943. German forces occupied the northern half of Italy and freed Mussolini from prison.

Detailed explanation-2: -On September 27, 1940, the Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Forming of the Axis Powers First, on October 15, 1936 Germany and Italy signed a friendship treaty that formed the Rome-German Axis. It was after this treaty that Italian dictator Benito Mussolini used the term Axis to refer to their alliance.

Detailed explanation-4: -However, 3 years later Italy’s allegiances switched. After a series of military failures, in July of 1943 Mussolini gave control of the Italian forces to the King, Victor Emmanuel III, who dismissed and imprisoned him. The new government began negotiations with the Allies.

Detailed explanation-5: -Italy joined the war as one of the Axis Powers in 1940, as the French Third Republic surrendered, with a plan to concentrate Italian forces on a major offensive against the British Empire in Africa and the Middle East, known as the “parallel war", while expecting the collapse of British forces in the European theatre.