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Axis leaders Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini
Track the League of Nations' continual failure to check via diplomacy the Axis powers' pre-World War II rise
Benito Mussolini with Adolf Hitler
Learn about Japan's pre-World War II invasions, joining of the Axis powers, and attack on Pearl Harbor
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Track the League of Nations' continual failure to check via diplomacy the Axis powers' pre-World War II rise
The 1930s consisted of many individual but significant events that bound the Axis...
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Learn about Japan's pre-World War II invasions, joining of the Axis powers, and attack on Pearl Harbor
In September 1940 Imperial Japan signed the Tripartite Pact with Nazi Germany and...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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Axis leaders Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler (right) with Benito Mussolini.
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Benito Mussolini with Adolf Hitler
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (left) touring the Eastern Front with German dictator...
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