WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The three principal partners in the Axis alliance were Germany, Italy, and Japan. These three countries recognized German and Italian dominance in continental Europe, as well as Japanese domination over East Asia.

Detailed explanation-2: -Leaders of the Axis powers, Japan, Italy and Germany, sign the Tripartite Pact, creating an alliance between the three countries, Sept. 1940.

Detailed explanation-3: -The “Rome–Berlin Axis” became a military alliance in 1939 under the so-called “Pact of Steel", with the Tripartite Pact of 1940 formally integrating the military aims of Germany, Italy, Japan, and later followed by other nations. The three pacts formed the foundation of the Axis alliance.

Detailed explanation-4: -Axis powers, coalition headed by Germany, Italy, and Japan that opposed the Allied powers in World War II.

Detailed explanation-5: -The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China). Read about the Tripartite Pact, the agreement that linked Germany, Italy, and Japan in a defensive alliance.

Detailed explanation-6: -The first step was the protocol signed by Germany and Italy in October 1936, after which Italian leader Benito Mussolini declared that all other European countries would thereafter rotate on the Rome–Berlin axis, thus creating the term “Axis".