Axis forces
WWII fascist alliance
The Axis forces were the military powers aligned against the Allies in World War II, primarily Germany, Italy, and Japan.
The name comes from the Rome-Berlin Axis, a 1936 agreement between Mussolini and Hitler describing their alliance as an axis around which European states would revolve.
The Axis forces occupied most of continental Europe by 1941.
- FascismItalian totalitarian nationalist movement
- Third ReichHitler's totalitarian German state
- WehrmachtNazi Germany's armed forces
- GermanyCentral European nation
- Vichy FranceWartime collaborationist French state
Adolf Hitler · puppet states · Nazism · Italy · Luftwaffe · Finland · Bulgaria · Romania · Slovakia · Hirohito · Hungary · Benito Mussolini · Operation Barbarossa · Eastern Front · Japan · Erwin Rommel · war crimes · Waffen-SS
- WWII MediterraneanAfrika Korps, Rommel, Montgomery, Tobruk, Tunisia
- Italy WWIIAnzio, Sicily, Salerno, Naples, Florence
- Greek 1940sGerman occupation, Crete, royalists, communists, Nazi invasion
Axis forcesAllied troops
Unified multinational military forces
United Nations forces · British forces · American forces · Red Army · Western Allies
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