USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The three principal partners in what was eventually referred to as the Axis alliance were Germany, Italy, and Japan. These countries were led by German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, and Japanese Emperor Hirohito.

Detailed explanation-2: -Axis Powers, Coalition headed by Germany, Italy, and Japan that opposed the Allied Powers in World War II. The alliance originated in a series of agreements between Germany and Italy, followed in 1936 by the Rome-Berlin Axis declaration and the German-Japanese Anti-Comintern Pact.

Detailed explanation-3: -Axis powers, coalition headed by Germany, Italy, and Japan that opposed the Allied powers in World War II.

Detailed explanation-4: -Japan joined the Axis powers because it had ambitions to build an empire in the Pacific. This made the United States and Great Britain, the two most powerful empires in the Pacific besides Japan, Japan’s natural enemies.

Detailed explanation-5: -Though Mussolini gets credit for popularizing the term in the context of the second world war, Janda and Mula say he actually cribbed it from the fascist premier of Hungary, Gyula Gombos, who wanted an “axis” of European power led by Germany that included Italy and Hungary as primary partners.