In December 1940 the countries at war with Germany and Italy were: * Britain and the British Empire and the independent countries of the Commonwealth (except the Irish Free State) which was neutral: # Australia # Canada # New Zealand # South Africa Greece was at war with Italy.
In the context of World War II, Axis-controlled nations were not in fact the same thing as the Axis powers (or, nations) themselves. The main Axis powers, Germany, Italy, and Japan, invaded and then controlled numerous European and Asian nations and territories: these were occupied and used by the Axis Powers to further their own prosperity and ongoing war-efforts.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan
In World War 2 there were the Allies and the AxisAllied CountriesAt the start of the war the Allied nations were the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth nations, France and Poland but in 1939 Poland was annexed by Germany and in 1940 France fell to Germany, from 1940 to 1941 Britain and the Commonwealth fought the Axis powers alone.After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and declaration of war by Germany, The United States of America joined the war on the side of the Allies in 1941.In 1941 the Soviet Union was invaded by Germany and the Soviet Union joined the with the Allies, (Should be noted that the Soviet Union only aligned itself with the Allies in the interest of defeating Germany the Axis forces, relations between the the Allies and the Soviet Union where dubious at best).Axis forcesFrom 1939 to 1945, Germany was the biggest and most powerful Axis member in Europe.Italy joined the war in 1940 on Axis side but swapped sides in 1943 to the Allies after Benito Mussolini was disposed. Japan was an Axis member since 1937 but only joined the war actively in 1941 with the attack on Pearl Harbor
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Japan joined the Axis powers on 9/27/1940 .
In the context of World War II, Axis-controlled nations were not in fact the same thing as the Axis powers (or, nations) themselves. The main Axis powers, Germany, Italy, and Japan, invaded and then controlled numerous European and Asian nations and territories: these were occupied and used by the Axis Powers to further their own prosperity and ongoing war-efforts.
The Axis Powers consisted of Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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Fascist nations of Axis Powers could have been stopped by Western democracies
Axis powers-Germany, Japan, and Italy-were part of a military alliance on the signing of the Tripartite Pact in September 1940, which officially founded the Axis powers. At their zenith, the Axis powers ruled empires that dominated large parts of Europe, Africa, East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean, but World War II ended with their total defeat and dissolution. Like the Allies, membership of the Axis was fluid, and other nations entered and later left the Axis during the course of the war.
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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).