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Tripartite Pact
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treaty establishing the Axis Powers of World War Two
The Tripartite Pact was a treaty signed in 1940 that formally united Germany, Italy, and Japan as allies during World War Two, creating what became known as the Axis Powers. It matters because this alliance shaped the course of the war by coordinating these three major military powers against their opponents and helping to define the global conflict along regional lines in Europe and Asia.
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- 日本国、独逸国及伊太利国間三国条約
- Location
- Berlin
- Image
- Tripartite Pact 27 September 1940.jpg
- Participant
- Empire of Japan
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- signatory
- Galeazzo Ciano
- law identifier
- 昭和15年条約第9号
- short name
- 日独伊三国同盟
- end time
- 1945-00-00
- Commons category
- Tripartite Pact
- point in time
- 1940-09-27
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Encyclopedic overview
The Tripartite Pact, also known as the Berlin Pact, was an agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940 by, respectively, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Galeazzo Ciano, and Saburō Kurusu (in that order) and in the presence of Adolf Hitler. It was a defensive military alliance that was eventually joined by Hungary (20 November 1940), Romania (23 November 1940), Slovakia (24 November 1940), Bulgaria (1 March 1941), and Yugoslavia (25 March 1941). Yugoslavia's accession provoked a coup d'état in Belgrade two days later. Germany, Italy, and Hungary responded by invading Yugoslavia. The resulting Italo-German client state, known as the Independent State of Croatia, joined the pact on 15 June 1941.
The Tripartite Pact was, together with the Anti-Comintern Pact and the Pact of Steel, one of a number of agreements between Germany, Japan, Italy, and other countries of the Axis powers governing their relationship.
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