He pushed to press on with expansion, regardless of the risk. In the last months of , he was sentenced to death for war crimes before an American military tribunal. In February , he walked the 13 steps to the gallows—taking any secrets about hidden gold with him. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you. Live TV.
Hoping for preferential economic treatment, mindful of recent German support for annexation of northern Transylvania, and eager for future Axis support for acquiring the remainder of Transylvania, Hungary joined the Axis on November 20, Romania Having already requested and received a German military mission in October , Romania joined on November 23, The Romanians hoped that loyal support for a German invasion of the Soviet Union and faithful oil deliveries would destroy the Soviet threat, return the provinces annexed by the Soviet Union in June , and win German support for the return of northern Transylvania.
Bulgaria Bulgaria, whose leaders were reluctant to get involved in a war with the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia, which was nominally an ally of Greece, stalled, resisting German pressure. After the Germans offered Greek territory in Thrace and exempted it from participation in the invasion of the Soviet Union, Bulgaria joined the Axis on March 1, Yugoslavia When the Germans agreed to settle for Yugoslav neutrality in the war against Greece, without demanding transit rights for Axis troops, Yugoslavia reluctantly joined the Axis on March 25, Two days later, Serbian military officers overthrew the government that had signed the Tripartite Pact.
Italy Italy was the first Axis partner to give up: it surrendered to the Allies on September 8, , six weeks after leaders of the Italian Fascist Party deposed Fascist leader and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
Romania On August 23, , following the overthrow of dictator Marshal Ion Antonescu, Romania switched sides: Romanian troops fought alongside Soviet troops for the remainder of the war. Bulgaria After the Soviets rejected its offer of an armistice, Bulgaria surrendered on September 8, , as the Communist-led Fatherland Front seized power from the Axis government in a coup and then declared war on Nazi Germany. Hungary The German occupation of Hungary in March succeeded in its primary purpose: to prevent the Hungarian leaders from deserting the Axis as the Romanians would later do.
Slovakia Slovakia, which German troops occupied in the summer of to suppress the Slovak uprising, remained in the Axis as a puppet state until the Soviets captured the capital, Bratislava, in early April Japan On May 7, , seven days after Hitler committed suicide, Nazi Germany surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. Japan fought on alone, surrendering formally on September 2, We would like to thank Crown Family Philanthropies and the Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation for supporting the ongoing work to create content and resources for the Holocaust Encyclopedia.
Slaughter thousands of native tribesman in Africa? Perfectly okay if Britons did it in Africa, but Japan take over and create the state of Manchukuo Manchuria? Completely unacceptable! Many people think of Hitler like a Bond villain in that he wanted to take over the entire world. That is not exactly true. America would control the Americas, Great Britain would have her colonies in the Middle East and Africa, Germany would have its thousand-year Reich in central and Eastern Europe, and finally, Asia would be controlled by Japan.
Japan, for her part, did want to continue to expand. But both Japan and Germany shared a common enemy in their ambitions for expansion; the Soviet Union. With common goals and a common adversary, and a long history of friendship and co-operation between the two powers, an alliance between the two seemed like common sense. Many Japanese leaders also felt that an alliance with Germany would isolate the aggression from America, although it would actually turn out to be quite the opposite.
When war broke out between Germany and the allied forces of Europe in , a short war was expected by both sides. Before , the United States was technically neutral and Japan was not involved in the war in a military way, despite being strongly aligned with Germany. At this time the relationship between Germany and Japan was mutually beneficial, but not heavily intertwined. Indeed, Japan was more concerned with exerting its influence in East Asia and not further west than that.
However, Japan made a sudden entrance into the conflict when it attacked Pearl Harbour in , bringing both itself and the United States into the war. It is said that Hitler was particularly happy about this, feeling that Japan was a very strong and capable ally. From this point, Japan along with Germany, Italy, and smaller states, came together as more of one force. When Germany declared war on the United States as a response to them declaring war with Japan, this further strengthened the relationship.
As the war went on and Germany and Japan began losing their strongholds across the world, trade and communication between the two countries deepened, with both countries becoming dependent on each other for valuable resources. When Germany surrendered to the Allied Forces in May , Japan chose to see this surrender as an act of treason and made moves to distance themselves from Germany and its leaders. Japan soon had to also surrender when it was clear the Allies would be victorious.
Since the war, relations have once again blossomed, focusing mainly on economic and business negotiations and trading relations.
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