Tripartite Pact

Examples of Tripartite Pact in the following topics:

• The Expanding Axis

  • In September 1940, Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact, agreeing to provide military and economic support to each other.
  • The Tripartite Pact, also known as the Three-Power Pact, Axis Pact, Three-way Pact, or Tripartite Treaty, was a pact signed in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940, which established the Axis Powers of World War II.
  • The pact was signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan.
  • The Tripartite Pact was subsequently joined by Hungary (November 20, 1940), Romania (November 23, 1940), Slovakia (November 24, 1940), Bulgaria (March 1, 1941, prior to the arrival of German troops), Yugoslavia (March 25, 1941), and Croatia (June 15, 1941).
  • A Japanese propaganda poster promoting the Tripartite Pact between Japan, Germany, and Italy.

• Japanese Aggression

  • Nearly two years later, on April 13, 1941, the parties signed a Neutrality Pact, in which the Soviet Union pledged to respect the territorial integrity and inviolability of Manchukuo, while Japan agreed similarly for the Mongolian People's Republic.
  • On September 15 an armistice was arranged, and two years later, on April 13, 1941, the parties signed aNeutrality Pact, in which the Soviet Union pledged to respect the territorial integrity and inviolability of Manchukuo, while Japan agreed similarly for the Mongolian People's Republic .
  • On September 27, 1940, Imperial Japan signed the Tripartite Pact with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, establishing what would become known as the Axis Powers.
  • The pact called for mutual protection and technological and economic cooperation.
  • A Japanese propaganda poster for the Tripartite Pact: "Good friends in three countries".

• Degrees of Neutrality

  • Around the time the Tripartite Pact was signed, the United States continued to support the United Kingdom and China by introducing the Lend-Lease policy (described in Module 33.3.2) and creating a security zone spanning roughly half of the Atlantic Ocean, where the United States Navy protected British convoys.

• Japanese Expansion

  • Japan reacted by forging an alliance with Germany and Italy in 1940, known as the Tripartite Pact, which worsened its relations with the US.

• Pearl Harbor

  • On December 11, Germany and Italy, honoring their commitments under the Tripartite Pact, declared war on the United States.
  • The pact was an earlier agreement between Germany, Italy and Japan which had the principal objective of limiting U.S. intervention in any conflicts involving the three nations.

• The European Theater

  • Although Germany and the Soviet Union were sworn enemies, on August 23, 1939, the Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and the German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop signed a non-aggression treaty known as the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
  • By late March 1941, following Bulgaria's signing of the Tripartite Pact, the Germans were in position to intervene in Greece.
  • The Yugoslav government had signed the Tripartite Pact, only to be overthrown two days later by a British-encouraged coup.

• The Kellogg-Briand Pact

• NATO and the Warsaw Pact

• The Kellogg-Briand Pact

  • ., Germany, and France signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, a war-prevention effort that attempted to declare war illegal.
  • The Kellogg-Briand Pact was established with similar war-prevention goals in mind.
  • The United States Senate approved the Pact overwhelmingly, 85–1.
  • The Pact was initially signed initially by fifteen nations, including France, the United States, and Germany.
  • Notably, the pact served as the legal basis for the creation of the notion of crime against peace.

• German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship

  • The German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Demarcation (later known as the German-Soviet Frontier Treaty) was a second supplementary protocol of the 1939 Hitler-Stalin Pact.
  • Some time later the new Russian revisionists including Russian historians Alexander Dyukov and Nataliya Narotchnitskaya, whose book carried an approving foreword by the Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, described the pact as a necessary measure because of the British and French failure to enter into an anti-fascist pact.
  • Vladimir Putin has also defended the pact.
  • The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, also known as the Nazi-Soviet Pact, was a neutrality pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed in Moscow on 23 August 1939 by foreign ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov, respectively.
  • Stalin's invasion of Bukovina in 1940 violated the pact, as it went beyond the Soviet sphere of influence agreed with the Axis.