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The Axis Powers was the name of a military alliance between several European and some Asian countries during World War II, hostile to the Allied Powers. The three leading Axis Powers were Germany, Italy, and Japan which are all featured as the main enemy in every Call of Duty game set in World War II, as well as being playable factions in multiplayer.

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  • The Axis Powers was the name of a military alliance between several European and some Asian countries during World War II, hostile to the Allied Powers. The three leading Axis Powers were Germany, Italy, and Japan which are all featured as the main enemy in every Call of Duty game set in World War II, as well as being playable factions in multiplayer.
  • The Axis Powers are a group of major characters in Hetalia: Axis Powers: Paint it, White and Hetalia: Axis Powers (anime) consisting of Germany, Italy (both North and Romano) and Japan. Historically, many other characters of Hetalia: Axis Powers were Axis countries, such as Finland, Hungary, Romania, and Thailand that have not been explicitly portrayed as Axis countries in the series (although the alignments of Finland and Hungary have been alluded to subtly throughout the series). The only country that has been officially portrayed as an Axis country in the series is Bulgaria.
  • An alliance in which they form the triple alliance during world war I to destroy the allied powers who formed the triple entente.
  • Also referred to as 'the Axis', 'Axis powers', 'Axis coalition', 'Axis countries', 'Axis nations', 'refers to one of the two coalition of powers in World War 2. It consisted of Nazi Germany, the Japanese Empire, Italy, and other co-belligerents, each in their own self-interest. Nazi Germany wanting living space for it's people, which chillingly involved the deaths of the inhabitiants who previously lived in the newly conquered space. The Japanese Empire had similar interests: Japan's agriculture could not keep up with population growth, it needed to territory to expand it's agriculture. Italy wanted to form a new Roman Empire.
  •  The Axis powers, made up of Nazi Germany, Facsist Italy, and the Empire of Japan, were the main countries who fought against the allies in World War II. They were united by their fascist goals and objectives, although they did not all share Hitler's obsession with racial purity. The surrender of Germany and Italy, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  • The Axis powers (German: Achsenmächte, Italian: Potenze dell'Asse, ), also known as the Axis alliance, Axis nations, Axis countries, or just the Axis, was the alignment of nations that fought in the Second World War against the Allied forces. The Axis grew out of the Anti-Comintern Pact, an anti-communist treaty signed by Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan in 1936. The Kingdom of Italy joined in 1937. The "Rome–Berlin Axis" became a military alliance in 1939 under the Pact of Steel, with the Tripartite Pact of 1940 leading to the integration of the military aims of Germany and its two treaty-bound allies. At their zenith during World War II, the Axis powers presided over empires that occupied large parts of Europe, Africa, East and Southeast Asia, and islands of the Pacific Ocean. The wa
  • The term was first used by Benito Mussolini, in November 1936, when he spoke of a Rome-Berlin axis arising out of the treaty of friendship signed between Italy and Germany on October 25, 1936. Mussolini declared that the two countries would form an "axis" around which the other states of Europe would revolve. This treaty was forged when Italy, originally opposed to Germany, was faced with opposition to its war in Abyssinia from the League of Nations and received support from Germany. Later, in May 1939, this relationship transformed into an alliance, called by Mussolini the "Pact of Steel".
  • The Axis grew out of the Anti-Comintern Pact, an anti-communist treaty signed by Germany and Japan in 1936. Italy joined the Pact in 1937. The "Rome–Berlin Axis" became a military alliance in 1939 under the Pact of Steel, with the Tripartite Pact of 1940 leading to the integration of the military aims of Germany and its two treaty-bound allies.
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