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There were three major Axis countries in World War II: [[Germany]], [[Italy]], and [[Japan]]. [[Germany]] and [[Italy]] started the war when Germany made advvances and conquering eastern [[Europe]]. Italy invaded North Africa, having a strategic place in the world for making an African conquest. Japan invaded [[China]] and most of the south [[Asian]] countries. This stirred the world in many different moods. Then on December 7, 1941, the [[Japanese]] launched one of the most damaging ambushes of all time on the [[United States of America]]; forcing a sleeping giant to awake. The Americans lost about 3,000 sailors in the [[Attack of Pearl Harbor]]. The minor Axis powers were [[Hungary]], [[Romania]],[[Slovakia]],[[Bulgaria]],[[Yugoslavia]], and [[Croatia]].
There were three major Axis countries in World War II: [[Germany]], [[Italy]], and [[Japan]]. [[Germany]] and [[Italy]] started the war when Germany made advvances and conquering eastern [[Europe]]. Italy invaded North Africa, having a strategic place in the world for making an African conquest. Japan invaded [[China]] and most of the south [[Asian]] countries. This stirred the world in many different moods. Then on December 7, 1941, the [[Japanese]] launched one of the most damaging ambushes of all time on the [[United States of America]]; forcing a sleeping giant to awake. The Americans lost about 3,000 sailors in the [[Attack of Pearl Harbor]]. The minor Axis powers were [[Hungary]], [[Romania]],[[Slovakia]],[[Bulgaria]],[[Yugoslavia]], and [[Croatia]].
The term was a reference to a 1936 speech by Mussolini, celebrating a treaty with Germany, in which he said:
:This Rome-Berlin protocol is an axis around which all European states, animated by a desire for peace, may collaborate.<ref>''Cortesi, Arnaldo (1936), "Mussolini Urges Paris and London to Enter Accord," ''The New York Times,'' November 2, 1936, p. 1</ref> Subsequently newspapers began to use the phrase "Rome-Berlin axis," and later "Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis."