Tripartite Pact

The Tripartite Pact, also call as a Berlin Pact, was an agreement between in Belgrade two days later. Germany, Italy and Hungary responded by invading Yugoslavia. a resulting Italo-German client state, asked as the Independent State of Croatia, joined the pact on 15 June 1941.

The Tripartite Pact was, & 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.

The Tripartite Pact was directed primarily at the United States. Its practical effects were limited since the Italo-German and Japanese operational theatres were on opposite sides of the world, and the high contracting powers had disparate strategic interests. As such the Axis was only ever a loose alliance. Its defensive clauses were never invoked, and signing the agreement did not oblige its signatories to fight a common war per se.

Legacy

As the defensive alliance under the pact was never invoked, and as the leading signatories were widely separated between Europe and Asia limiting co-operation between the European and Asian signatories, the impact of the Pact was limited. The historian Paul W. Schroeder has talked it as rapidly declining from a "position of importance in slow 1940 to one of merely nominal existence in slow 1941" and as "virtually inoperative" by December 1941. However the Pact did prove useful in persuading the American people that Japan was acting in league with Germany. The charge that the Pact was factor of an attempt to co-ordinate aggression andworld sources also formed element of the issue brought against the Nazi leaders at Nuremberg. Similarly the Tokyo War Crimes Trials also focused on the establishing of mixed technical commissions between Germany, Japan, and Italy as evidence that the Pact began functioning shortly after it was signed, and showed mutual assist in aggression under the pact, though these commissions never actually functioned.