On this date, September 27, 1940, The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy. I will post the information about this event from Wikipedia.
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Signing of the Tripartite Pact. On the lefthand side of the picture, seated from left to right, are the signatories Saburō Kurusu (representing Japan), Galeazzo Ciano (Italy) and Adolf Hitler (Germany). |
The Tripartite Pact, also known as the Three-Power Pact, Axis Pact, Three-way Pact or Tripartite Treaty, was the pact that established the Axis Powers of World War II. It was signed in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940 by representatives of Nazi Germany (Adolf Hitler), Fascist Italy (foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano) and Imperial Japan (Saburō Kurusu, Japan's ambassador to Germany).