Russia traded sides because Germany broke their treaty agreement and invaded. They switched to the Allies.
ItalyDuring World War I, however, Italy did not go to war immediately with her allies but stayed neutral. In 1915, she joined the Entente powers and declared war on Austria-Hungary, and later Germany in the subsequent year. The Dual Alliance persisted throughout the war and ended with their defeats in 1918.
The axis of World War II consisted of the Soviet Union (until they joined the Allies after Hitler broke the treaty over the invasion of Poland), Germany, Italy and Japan. # edit; Not quite right. Poland was invaded on the 1st of September 1939. Russia remained an ally of Germany until invaded by Germany in mid-1941. Nearly two years later.
The Axis Powers was a military alliance during WW2 (1939-1945) consisting of Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. The three major Axis powers were Germany, Japan, and Italy, which signed a Tripartite Pact on September 27, 1939. The entire Axis Powers alliance was disolved in 1945 at the end of WW2.
Italy was in the Triple Alliance, but joined World War I on the side of the Entente because the Alliance was a defense treaty and Italy felt Germany's invasion of Belgium did not meet the requirements for their actions and it anything, it broke the treaty completely.
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Germany broke the Non-Agression pact with the Soviet Union and attacked them therefore Soviets joined the allies to fight Germany.
Russia traded sides because Germany broke their treaty agreement and invaded. They switched to the Allies.
Josef Stalin, the dictator of the Communist government of the USSR, Soviet Republic was the person who allied with the Allies after Hitler broke an agreement to not attack Russia.
ItalyDuring World War I, however, Italy did not go to war immediately with her allies but stayed neutral. In 1915, she joined the Entente powers and declared war on Austria-Hungary, and later Germany in the subsequent year. The Dual Alliance persisted throughout the war and ended with their defeats in 1918.
In the very beginning of the war Enlgand and France were allies because they both had an appeasement with Germany, until Ger. broke it by invading Poland.
The United States entered on the side of the Allies, which included the United Kingdom, France, Australia, Canada, the Soviet Union, which joined the allies after Nazi Germany broke their treaty, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Denmark, Greece, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, and Yugoslavia.
SpainAlthough it was a civil war, Germany, Italy, AND Soviet Russia had joined in. (Extended by Melodius92)
On June 22nd 1941 Germany broke the pact and invaded the USSR, under the codename: Operation Barbarossa
The axis of World War II consisted of the Soviet Union (until they joined the Allies after Hitler broke the treaty over the invasion of Poland), Germany, Italy and Japan. # edit; Not quite right. Poland was invaded on the 1st of September 1939. Russia remained an ally of Germany until invaded by Germany in mid-1941. Nearly two years later.
Americans, British and the Russians. after Hitler broke his defensive pact with the Russians, the Russians switched teams and joined the allies
Initially they did not ally with Russia because Russia had allied with Germany. Once Germany attacked Russia and broke the pact the Russians wanted to ally with Britain and France. They eventually did.