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: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>
 
: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," or "Axis" for short.
 
Subsequently, newspapers began to use the phrase "Rome-Berlin axis," and later "Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis," or "Axis" for short.
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===Neutrals in 1939===
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Most of these countries were occupied by the [[Third Reich]] after 1939, provided manpower and recruits for the German armed services, manufacturing capacity and natural resources for the Nazi war effort, and a tax base.
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==== [[Oslo Group of States]]====
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* [[Kingdom of Denmark]]
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* [[Republic of Finland]]<ref>[http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1939/391214a.html League of Nations' Expulsion of the USSR, December 12, 1939]</ref>
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* [[Grand Duchy of Luxembourg]]
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* [[Kingdom of Norway]]
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* [[Kingdom of the Netherlands]]
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* [[Kingdom of Sweden]]
  
 
==The Axis powers==
 
==The Axis powers==
 
*[[Third Reich]] (from September 27, 1940)
 
*[[Third Reich]] (from September 27, 1940)
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*[[Vichy France]] and [[African]] and [[Middle East]]ern dominions
 
*[[Italy|Kingdom of Italy]] (from September 27, 1940)
 
*[[Italy|Kingdom of Italy]] (from September 27, 1940)
 
*[[Japan]] (from September 27, 1940)
 
*[[Japan]] (from September 27, 1940)

Latest revision as of 16:23, March 14, 2026

There were three major Axis countries in World War II: Germany, Italy, and Japan. Germany started the war in 1939, by invading Poland; Italy joined in 1940, after the invasion of France. Italy also invaded North Africa and Greece, taking advantage of its strategic place in the Mediterranean. In 1939, Japan was already engaged in a war against China; it took advantage of the fall of France to occupy other territories in Southeast Asia. This stirred the world in many different ways.

Then on December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched one of the most damaging surprise attacks of all time on the United States of America, forcing a sleeping giant to awake and join the war. The Americans lost about 3,000 sailors in the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

Other junior Axis powers were Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria,Yugoslavia, and Croatia.

The term "Axis" is 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.[1]

Subsequently, newspapers began to use the phrase "Rome-Berlin axis," and later "Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis," or "Axis" for short.

Neutrals in 1939

Most of these countries were occupied by the Third Reich after 1939, provided manpower and recruits for the German armed services, manufacturing capacity and natural resources for the Nazi war effort, and a tax base.

Oslo Group of States

The Axis powers

See also

References

  1. ↑ Cortesi, Arnaldo (1936), "Mussolini Urges Paris and London to Enter Accord," The New York Times, November 2, 1936, p. 1
  2. ↑ League of Nations' Expulsion of the USSR, December 12, 1939
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