The United States was concerned that Japan would provide military support to the European members of the Axis.
The United States was concerned that Japan would provide military support to the European members of the Axis.
The United States was concerned that Japan would provide military support to the European members of the Axis.
Japan had comitted itself to the "throw of the dice" in the affairs of the Pacific. By joining the Tripartite Pact in 1940 and by trying to eliminate the US Fleet at Pearl Harbor it could only hope for an exhausted US to negotiate a Pacific settlement or a complete Axis victory. Neither would happen, but Japan fought on sacrifice after bloody sacrifice until an unconditional surrender was their only option.
Nazi Germany (Tripartite Pact signer) Fascist Italy (Tripartite Pact signer) Slovakia (Tripartite Pact signer) Romania (Tripartite Pact signer) Hungary (Tripartite Pact signer) Yugoslavia (Tripartite Pact signer) Bulgaria (Tripartite Pact signer) Transylvania (Tripartite Pact signer) Croatia (Tripartite Pact signer)
Japan was at war in China and signed the Tripartite Pact with Germany.
Mutual defense treaty that joined the Axis Powers; Meant that if the US engaged in war with Germany, they would be fighting a two-ocean war with Japan as well
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The US declared war the next day, joining the Allies.
Because Hitler was hoping that Japan would honor it's portion of the Tripartite Pact by attacking Russia's (Soviet Union) Eastern Flank; Hitler DECLARED WAR on the US on 11 December 1941, calculating that if he helped Japan fight the USA, they'd help him fight the USSR.
The US declared war on Japan. Germany, having signed a mutual defense agreement with Japan, declared war on the US. The US was then fully at war with the Axis powers.
Germany did NOT want to fight the US. The US needed a cause (reason) to declare war on Germany. Germany was NOT going to enrage the US. The ONLY reason Germany declared war on the US on December 11, 1941 was because Germany was hoping that Japan would reciprocate the favor and attack the USSR (Russia). Germany helps Japan; Japan helps Germany...TRIPARTITE PACT.
The Tripartite Act was signed by the nations belonging to the Axis powers during World War II, so it was not signed by any of the Allies: France, the UK, the US, etc. Non-Allies who were involved with the Tripartite Pact but did not sign it were the Soviet Union and Finland.