Question

In which year was the Tripartite pact between Italy, Japan and Germany signed?
1. 1941
2. 1938
3. 1940
4. 1939

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : 1940

• Tripartite Pact, the agreement concluded by Germany, Italy, and Japan on September 27, 1940, one year after the start of World War II.
• It created a defence alliance between the countries and was largely intended to deter the United States from entering the conflict.
• Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Croatia were later signatories to the pact.

• On October 25, 1936, Germany and Italy completed the Rome-Berlin Axis, a cooperation deal. A month later Japan joined the so-called Axis powers by signing (with Germany) the Anti-Comintern Pact, an anti-communist agreement that was primarily directed against the Soviet Union; Italy signed in 1937.

• However, that compact was broken with the German-Soviet Non-aggression Pact of August 23, 1939, which paved the way for Germany to invade Poland the following week, thus starting World War II.

• Against this backdrop, officials from Germany, Italy, and Japan met in Berlin in September 1940 to devise the Tripartite Pact.

• It notably called on signees “to assist one another with all political, economic and military means” when any one of them was attacked by “a Power at present not involved in the European War or in the Sino-Japanese Conflict.”

• Such wording notably excluded the Soviet Union, which was already involved in both wars, and was thus seen as a warning to the United States against entering World War II.

• The pact was signed by Joachim von Ribbentrop (Germany), Galeazzo Ciano (Italy), and Kurusu Saburo (Japan). Several other European countries—some of which had been coerced—were later signatories.