The Anti-Comintern Pact Flashcards
1
Q
When was it signed?
A
November 1936
2
Q
Who signed it?
A
Germany and Japan
3
Q
What was the Comintern?
A
The USSR backed organisation supporting world-wide communist revolution, so nominally this pact was to prevent the spread of communism beyond the Iron Curtain.
4
Q
What was agreed?
A
Germany and Japan would assist one another if they ever went to war with Russia
5
Q
When and why did Italy join?
A
Due to the failure of the Stresa front and their anger at Britain, Italy joined in 1937, forming the axis-alliance.
