16 Facts About Tripartite Pact

Tripartite Pact, known as the Berlin Pact, was an agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940 by, respectively, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Galeazzo Ciano and Saburo Kurusu.

Tripartite Pact was, together with the Anti-Comintern Pact and the Pact of Steel, one of a number of agreements between Germany, Japan, Italy, and other countries of the Axis Powers governing their relationship.

Purpose of the Tripartite Pact is, above all things, to help restore peace to the world as quickly as possible.

Tripartite Pact urged Csaky to join the pact and even claimed that it was the expectation of Germany and Italy that he would do so.

Tripartite Pact considered it especially important for Hungary to sign the pact before Romania did.

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Shortly after the signing of the Tripartite Pact, Slovakia, following the Hungarian lead, sent messages of "spiritual adherence" to Germany and Italy.

Tripartite Pact's purpose was to increase Tuka's standing in Slovakia relative to that of his rival, Tiso, although the Germans had no intention of permitting Tiso to be removed.

Tripartite Pact encouraged the Bulgarians to sign a mutual assistance pact that had first been discussed in October 1939.

Tripartite Pact offered Soviet recognition of Bulgarian claims in Greece and Turkey.

Tripartite Pact announced that it was done partly in gratitude for Germany's assistance to Bulgaria in obtaining the Treaty of Craiova with Romania and that it would not affect Bulgaria's relations with Turkey or the Soviet Union.

The new Yugoslav government under Prime Minister and General Dusan Simovic, refused to ratify Yugoslavia's signing of the Tripartite Pact and started negotiations with the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union.

The Soviets considered joining the Tripartite Pact to be an update of existing agreements with Germany.

Phibun then met with Tsubokami, who offered him four options: to conclude a defensive–offensive alliance with Japan, to join the Tripartite Pact, to co-operate in Japanese military operations, or to agree to the joint defence of Thailand.

However the Tripartite Pact did prove useful in persuading the American people that Japan was acting in league with Germany.

The charge that the Tripartite Pact was part of an effort to co-ordinate aggression and achieve world domination formed part of the case brought against the Nazi leaders at Nuremberg.

Similarly the Tokyo War Crimes Trials focused on the establishing of mixed technical commissions between Germany, Japan, and Italy as evidence that the Tripartite Pact began functioning shortly after it was signed, and showed mutual support in aggression under the pact, though these commissions never actually functioned.