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Anti-Comintern Pact
Anti-Comintern Pact (Antikominternpakt): 1936 Berlin agreement between Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan against the Communist International, effectively aimed at the USSR; joined by Italy in 1937 and precursory to the Axis.
Pact of Steel
The Pact of Steel (Stahlpakt, Patto d'Acciaio), formally the Pact of Friendship and Alliance, was the German-Italian military alliance signed in Berlin on May 22, 1939, distinct from the 1936 Anti-Comintern Pact and the 1940 Tripartite Pact.
Tripartite Pact
Tripartite Pact: the September 27, 1940 Berlin alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan (the Axis), a ten-year mutual-assistance treaty aimed at deterring the United States, built on the Anti-Comintern and Pact of Steel treaties.