Axis Powers

The Axis Powers is a term for those participants in World War II opposed to the Allies. The 3 major Axis powers, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and the Empire of Japan, referred to themselves as the "Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis". The Axis powers ruled empires that dominated large portions of Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, but they were ultimately defeated in the end of World War II. Like the Allies, membership of the Axis was fluid, and some nations entered and later left the Axis during the course of the war.

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Participants in World War II - Allies - Nazi Germany - Fascist Italy - Empire of Japan - Rome - Berlin - Tokyo - Empire - Europe - Asia-Pacific - World War II

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• Major Axis powers
• Nazi Germany, under Führer Adolf Hitler (and in the last days of the war, President Karl Dönitz)
• Japan, under Emperor Hirohito, Prime Minister Hideki Tojo (and in the last days of the war, Kuniaki Koiso and Kantaro Suzuki).
• Italy (until September 8, 1943), under Prime Minister Benito Mussolini & King Victor Emmanuel III.
• Lesser Axis powers
• Bulgaria (until August 1944)
• Hungary (until April 4, 1945)
• Romania (until August 1944)
• Italian Social Republic (Republic of Salò), under Benito Mussolini
• Countries officially in active coalition with the Axis
• USSR (until June 22, 1941, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact)
• Denmark (joined the Anti-Comintern Pact in 1941).
• Finland (June 26, 1944 – July 31, 1944, Ryti-Ribbentrop Agreement)
• Independent State of Croatia (until May 1945)
• Thailand, under Field Marshal Luang Phibunsongkhram.
• Provisonal Government of Free India, under Subhas Chandra Bose.
• Under direct internal Axis control
• Manchukuo (Manchuria; until August 1945)
• Mengjiang (until August 1945)
• Reformed Government of the Republic of China (until August 1945)
• Vichy France (until August 1944)
• Slovakia (until 1944-45)
• Lokot Republic (until 1943)
• Belarusian Central Rada (until 1944)
• Reichskommissariat der Ostland (until 1944)
• Reichskommissariat der Ukraine (until 1943-44)
• Neutral countries with good relations with the Axis
• Spain (until 1945)
• Argentina (pro-Axis ?neutrality? until March 27 1945 when declared war against Germany and Japan under American pressure.)

See also these articles: Native pro-Axis leaders, governments and Axis direct control of occupied countries; Axis plans for expansion and attacks and; Expansion operations and planning of the Axis Powers.

Related Topics:
Native pro-Axis leaders, governments and Axis direct control of occupied countries - Axis plans for expansion and attacks - Expansion operations and planning of the Axis Powers

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