Italy joined the war mainly because it was allied with Germany.
At first, Benito Mussolini (Italy's dictator) actually strongly opposed Adolf Hitler (Germany's dictator), and almost went to war against him in 1935 after some Nazis had murdered the dictator ruling Austria, who Mussolini had strongly supported. But Hitler admired Mussolini, and had always had plans to try to ally with him. Both countries wanted to conquer other countries- when Italy invaded and conquered Abyssinia (modern Ethiopia), Germany was pretty much the only country that supported it, which began to change Mussolini's mind about Hitler.
Once it became clear that they shared goals, and Hitler made promises not to try to take Italian territory, Italy joined Germany's side- although Italy did not join the war immediately. When Germany invaded France in May 1940, Italy finally declared war on Britain and France in early June, after Germany had almost fully defeated France (Mussolini famously quipped that he just needed a few thousand dead soldiers so that he could have a seat at the negotiation table).
Germany and Italy would formalize their alliance, along with Japan, in September 1940 with the "Tripartite Pact".
Yes.
Italy surrendered to Allied forces after being defeated and pushed out of North Africa. Sicily fell to Allied Commanders in Aug. 1943. Italy agreed to joins the allied forces in October of 1943.
Italy was in the axis powers from the start.
Italy never joined the allied forces igtaly is still part of the axis pwers known as Germany,Italy and japan
1943
Dec 8,1941, after Japan attacked the US. But we pretty much helped them all along.
In World War I, the two belligerents were the Allied or Entente Forces and the Central Powers. The Allied Forces were Britain, France, Russia, Japan, Italy, Belgium, Canada and Serbia. America would join in the final year of the war. The Central Powers were Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman empire and Bulgaria. In World War II the two sides were the Allied Forces and the Axis Powers. The Allied forces were Britain, France, the Soviet Union, China, Canada and America. The Axis Powers were Germany, which controlled most of continental Europe, Italy and Japan.
6th June 1944
During WW2 there was a campaign called the Italian Campaign where Allied forces made movements in and around italy. This took place from 10th July 1943 to 2nd May 1945. So it lasted for 1 year, 10 months and 22 days
1936!
Many of the older Hitler Youth joined the Wehrmact at the end of the war and fought against the allied forces. It amazed the allied servicemen when they found 12 year old boys were shooting at them. They did not like shooting at boys. It really upset the servicemen. There were old German people too who were fighting with the boys.
* Because Italy realized that the Central Powers (the side that they originally were on) were losing, and Italy, not heavily invested in the causes behind the war, wished to gain the port city of Fiume, which was currently owned by Austria-Hungary. When it was evident that they would not receive Fiume by staying with the Central Powers, Italy joined forces with the Allies, who agreed that Italy could have Fiume, if she could capture it.
In 2000, when Italy joined the other 5 countries. The original tournament goes back to 1883, when just Ireland, England, Wales and Scotland were part of it. France joined in 1910 to make it 5 nations and then Italy joined in 2000.
It was in 1944 that the Normandy beaches were retaken by Allied forces during World War II. In that same year, the Allies pushed the German forces all the way back to Germany's own borders, yet the war would continue into 1945.
Japan never joined with Germany, they fought only aginst the US.
1936!
The original 6 members were in it from 1957. They together founded it. They were Italy, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. 1973 was the first year in which new members joined.