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Tripartite Pact
Tripartite Pact, negotiated in Tokyo and signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940 by Germany, Italy, and Japan. It was primarily intended to forestall US intervention in the war, for the terms included promise of mutual aid if any one of the signatories was attacked by a power not already involved in the European war or in the China Incident. However, secret clauses added at Japan's request more or less nullified these terms as Japan wanted to obtain concessions from the USA, using its withdrawal from the pact as a bargaining point. But Washington was not intimidated by the pact; on the contrary, the USA intensified its help to China, which made any negotiations impossible for the Japanese.
One of the pact's articles specifically guaranteed the existing German–Soviet relationship (see Nazi–Soviet Pact), and in November 1940 the USSR was asked to join. However, the conditions Stalin proposed for doing so did not suit Hitler and negotiations ceased, but Romania, Hungary, and Slovakia signed the same month, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia (which repudiated it almost immediately) signed in March 1941, and the Nazi puppet state of Croatia signed on 15 June 1941. Unlike the Grand Alliance, the Axis coalition formed by the pact had no agreed strategy for fighting the war. See also Axis strategy and co-operation. |
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I. C. B. DEAR and M. R. D. FOOT. "Tripartite Pact." The Oxford Companion to World War II. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. I. C. B. DEAR and M. R. D. FOOT. "Tripartite Pact." The Oxford Companion to World War II. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O129-TripartitePact.html I. C. B. DEAR and M. R. D. FOOT. "Tripartite Pact." The Oxford Companion to World War II. 2001. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O129-TripartitePact.html |
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Tripartite Pact
Tripartite Pact (2 Sept. 1940), see anti-Comintern Pact; Axis Powers
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JAN PALMOWSKI. "Tripartite Pact." A Dictionary of Contemporary World History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JAN PALMOWSKI. "Tripartite Pact." A Dictionary of Contemporary World History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O46-TripartitePact.html JAN PALMOWSKI. "Tripartite Pact." A Dictionary of Contemporary World History. 2004. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O46-TripartitePact.html |
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