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Pact of Steel (1939)
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22 May 1939 — Germany and Italy sign a full military alliance in Rome. Mussolini privately warns he cannot fight before 1943; Hitler is planning for that September.
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- Outbreak of WW2 in Europe (chapter 8 of Road to WW2)
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- The Road to War, 1931–1941
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