The alliance was commonly known as the Axis Powers, based on an earlier agreement, the Pact of Steel between Germany and Italy, which established the "Rome-Berlin axis" (known after 1940 as the "Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis").
The Axis was formed on September 27, 1940 under the Tripartite Pact of 1940 (not to be confused with the Tripartite Agreement of 1936, a financial agreement between the US, France , and the UK).
The alliance between Hitler, Mussolini, and Kurusu - Japan's foreign ambassador - was formed on September 27, 1940. It came to be known as the Tripartite (German; Literally; "Three Party") Pact. Other names included were: Tripartite Alliance Axis Pact Three-Way Pact
Zimmerman Telegram
World War I - the Triple Alliance. World War II - the Axis.
The name of the agreement between Japan and Germany is called the Anti-Comintern Pact. The pact was made to direct against the Communist International.
Prior to World War 1, the alliance between Germany, Austria, and Italy was known as the Triple Alliance, which formed into an alliance between Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire.Prior to World War 2, Austria and Germany unified into a single German state in a process known as Anschluß, or unification.
Another name for the Triple Alliance is the Central Powers.
It was called the Tripartite Pact.
During the 1930s and continuing into World War II, Germany and Italy were allied under the name of the "Axis", referring to their central geographic position in Europe and, in their view, their central position in world supremacy. Later, Japan also joined this "Axis" alliance.
The Schlieffen Plan
They were part of the alliance known as the Central Powers. When Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by the Black Hand Gang, who worked for Serbia, Ferdinand's uncle, Emperor of Austria, declared war on Serbia along with Germany and several other countries. This was what started the first World War.
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