The Anti-Comintern Pact was an agreement between Nazi Germany and Japan, signed in Berlin in late 1936. Officially it committed the two states to share information and cooperate against the Communist International, the Soviet-led organization that promoted revolution abroad. A secret protocol went further, providing that neither would help the Soviet Union if it attacked the other. Italy joined in 1937, and several other states, including Hungary and Spain, signed later. The pact marked the first step in the alignment of the Axis powers, and it led to the Tripartite Pact of 1940 between Germany, Italy and Japan.
Before and after
- 7 September 1936The last thylacine dies in captivity
- 29 September 1936Birth of Silvio Berlusconi
- 5 October 1936Birth of Václav Havel
- 19 October 1936Death of Lu Xun
- 25 November 1936Anti-Comintern Pact
- December 1936Paracuellos massacres
- from 5 December 1936 to 9 October 1991Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
- 10 December 1936Death of Luigi Pirandello
- 17 December 1936Birth of Pope Francis
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