THE DAY IN HISTORY · MAY 22

May 22 in history

1939 — The Pact of Steel

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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