The Tripartite Pact was a military alliance signed in Berlin by Germany, Italy and Japan, which created the Axis as a formal grouping. The signatories recognized each other's leadership in establishing a new order in Europe and in Greater East Asia, and promised to help each other if one was attacked by a power not already in the war, which was a clear warning to the United States. Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Bulgaria later joined, and Yugoslavia signed in 1941 but then saw its government overthrown in a coup. The pact brought little real coordination between the partners, who fought largely separate wars. It linked the conflicts in Europe and Asia in the Allied mind.
Before and after
- from 9 September 1940 to 16 September 1940Italian invasion of Egypt
- 12 September 1940Lascaux
- 20 September 1940Birth of Tarō Asō
- 23 September 1940Birth of Michel Temer
- 27 September 1940Tripartite Pact
- 9 October 1940Birth of John Lennon
- from 19 October 1940 to 24 October 1940Official visit by Heinrich Himmler to Spain
- 21 October 1940Publication of For Whom the Bell Tolls
- 23 October 1940Birth of Pelé
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