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= Axis Forces =

Germany, Italy and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact on September 27, 1940 to make an alliance. Adolf Hitler the Chancellor of Germany, Benito Mussolini the Prime Minister of Italy and Hideki Tojo Commander of Japan lead the Axis powers during World War II. Each leader supported the goal of territorial expansion, wanted the demolition of the Soviet Union and acknowledged and respected the geological areas of each country. All three leaders were dictators and they wanted their countries to be superior compared to other countries.

Hitler’s Nazi Party rose as well as Mussolini’s Fascist Party and both became stronger. Hitler wanted to get rid of all the Jewish people because he believed that Germans were the only true race; he wanted communists gone along with all perceived as weaker people. Mussolini promised to bring law and order back into the country and take the economic problems out of his country. Hitler eventually got his wish of expansion through the Munich Agreement with France and other powerful European countries in September 1938, which let to Hitler annexing the German speaking part of Czechoslovakia. Soon, things spiraled downward in Europe. Hitler invaded and took over all of Czechoslovakia, making his next target Poland which was on the eastern border of Germany.

After many battles, the Allied leaders Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin met in Russia for the Yalta conference planning the defeat of Hitler and his powers. The Soviet Union eventually did the final attack on Germany in March 1945. Allied forces were lined up all along the Rhine River, 40 miles outside of Berlin. Axis soldiers surrendered in large groups day after day to the Allied forces. The Soviet Union got closer and closer to Berlin and Hitler finally realized the war was over. On May 8, 1945, he committed suicide in his bunker, leaving the Allied forces to win and the Axis forces to lose World War II.