Axis Powers
Name given to the alliance of Germany, Italy, Japan, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary before and during World War II. The name is taken from the 1936 treaty between Germany and Italy which formed the ...
Axis strategy and co-operation
Although the leaders of the Axis spoke frequently in public of their co-operation, and they were bound by various treaties (see Tripartite Pact, Pact of Steel, and Anti-Comintern pact), in ...
diplomacy
N.the profession, activity, or skill of managing international relations, typically by a country's representatives abroad: an extensive round of diplomacy in the Middle East.
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
The pseudo-political and economic union of Japanese-dominated Asian and Pacific territories during World War II. In the aftermath of Japan's dramatic conquests of 1941–42, some nationalist leaders ...
Japanese–Soviet campaigns and relations, 1939–45
Japan fought two major campaigns against the USSR, in 1939 and in 1945 (see Map 59). In between, the two countries maintained an uneasy truce.Japan's conclusion of the Anti-Comintern ...
Joachim von Ribbentrop
(b. 30 Apr. 1893, d. 16 Oct. 1946).Nazi Foreign Secretary 1938–45 He joined the Nazi Party in 1932 and became a mediator between Hitler and von Papen later that year. After Hitler came to power he ...
origins of the war
The events which led to the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe and the Pacific followed a well-known path—the via dolorosa of mankind in the 1930s and early ...
Ōshima Hiroshi, Lt-General Baron
(1886–1975),Japanese army officer turned diplomat who helped negotiate the Anti-Comintern and Tripartite Pacts. As a lt-general he served as ambassador to Berlin in 1938–9 and 1941–5. It was his ...
Tōgō Shigenori
(1882–1950),prominent Japanese diplomat who became foreign minister before the outbreak of the Pacific war in December 1941, and at its end. Born in Kagoshima, he studied at Tokyo University. ...
