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The Axis powers, [nb 1] originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis [1] and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies. Its principal members were Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Empire of Japan. The Axis were united in their far-right positions and general opposition to ...
The Axis Powers of World War II was established with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in 1940 and pursued a strongly militarist and nationalist ideology; with a policy of anti-communism. During the early phase of the war, puppet governments were established in their occupied nations. When the war ended, many of them faced trials for war crimes.
The Reformed Government of the Republic of China (RGRC) was created in Nanking, after the Battle of Nanking on 28 March 1938. [26] The RGRC was intended to appear legitimate. Wang Jingwei was the first Chairman of the RGRC. [27] Despite this, the government was filled with "nonentities who posed no threat to the Japanese exercise of real power."
The Axis powers hosted governments-in-exile in their territory. Most belonged to Axis-sponsored puppet regimes whose territory came under Allied occupation late in the war. The purpose of many of these organizations was to recruit and organize military units composed of their nationals in the host country.
List of expansion operations and planning of the Axis powers; List of place names used during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong; List of pro-Axis leaders and governments or direct control in occupied territories
German–Soviet Axis talks (considered plans to join the Soviet Union to the Axis powers and its New World Order) First Offer from Axis to the Soviets in Partitioning the world (Soviet Baltic states, Eastern Poland, Moldovian SSR, Eastern Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, British India and Mongolia in Soviet Sphere of Influence.
The fascinating story of how the Greeks initially defied the Axis Powers is not widely known. ... The capital fell on April 27, 1941 and the Greek government fled to Crete, ...
Axis troops successfully invaded through Yugoslavia, quickly overcoming Greek and British defenders. Greece was partitioned under German, Italian, and Bulgarian occupation. A Greek government-in-exile was formed in Cairo (it moved to London), and Germany set up a puppet government in Athens. The latter attracted numerous anti-communist elements.