Germany
and Italy
Germany's
Adolf Hitler and Italy's Benito Mussolini
started a war in Europe in 1939. They wanted more territory,
natural resources, and political power in Europe, the Mediterranean,
and North Africa. The European rulers allied themselves with
Japan's Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. Tojo had already started
a separate war in Asia. The two wars became a single world
conflict when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. |
Adolf
Hitler and Benito Mussolini parade through Munich, June 1940
Courtesy of the National Archives
# 242-EB-7-38 |
Germany,
Italy, and Japan called themselves the Axis Powers. They fought
against the Allied nations. The Allies included Great Britain, France,
the Soviet Union, and the United States.
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German
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