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Tripartite Pact (1940)

On the Road to WW2 map as “The Tripartite Pact”

27 Sep 1940 — Germany, Italy and Japan sign a mutual-defense pact in Berlin, aimed squarely at keeping America out of both oceans’ wars. The Axis is now a world system.

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Turning point
Chapter
Road to Operation Barbarossa (chapter 11 of Road to WW2)
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The Road to War, 1931–1941
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