The Axis'
The Axis powers , also known as the Axis alliance, Axis nations, Axis countries, or the Axis, were the nations that fought in the Second World War against the Allied forces. The Axis powers were united by their opposition to the Western world and the Soviet Union. They described their goals as breaking the hegemony of plutocratic-capitalist Western powers and defending civilization from communism.[1] The Axis grew out of the Anti-Comintern Pact, an anti-communist treaty signed by Germany and Japan in 1936. Italy joined the Pact in 1937. The "Rome–Berlin Axis" became a military alliance in 1939 under the Pact of Steel, with the Tripartite Pact of 1940 leading to the integration of the military aims of Germany and its two treaty-bound allies. |
A cartoon artists' impression on The Axis and Allies.
The "separation" during the grouping of the war. Axis and Allies.
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The Allies
The leaders made a truce so they could defeat their enemies They smartly made plans to attack the enemies with their forces and supplies. The three powerful forces were Great Britain, Russia, and the United States; they were sometimes called the Big Three. Once China joined the allies, they were then nicknamed the Four Policemen; Four Policemen founded the United Nations. The involvement of many of the Allies in World War II was natural and inevitable -- they were invaded or under the direct threat of invasion by the Axis. When Hitler announced that Germany would "liberate" the ethnic Germansin Czechoslovakia, England and France recognized the growing danger of a second world war caused by German expansionism. England and France were politically unprepared for war, however, and appeased Hitler with the Munich Pact -- effectively compelling Czechoslovakia to cede its frontier districts to Germany. |
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