Tripartite Pact

Examples of Tripartite Pact in the following topics:

• The Expanding Axis

  • In September 1940, Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact, agreeing to provide military and economic support to each other.
  • The Tripartite Pact, also known as the Three-Power Pact, Axis Pact, Three-way Pact, or Tripartite Treaty, was a pact signed in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940, which established the Axis Powers of World War II.
  • The pact was signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan.
  • The Tripartite Pact was subsequently joined by Hungary (November 20, 1940), Romania (November 23, 1940), Slovakia (November 24, 1940), Bulgaria (March 1, 1941, prior to the arrival of German troops), Yugoslavia (March 25, 1941), and Croatia (June 15, 1941).
  • A Japanese propaganda poster promoting the Tripartite Pact between Japan, Germany, and Italy.

• Japanese Aggression

  • Nearly two years later, on April 13, 1941, the parties signed a Neutrality Pact, in which the Soviet Union pledged to respect the territorial integrity and inviolability of Manchukuo, while Japan agreed similarly for the Mongolian People's Republic.
  • On September 15 an armistice was arranged, and two years later, on April 13, 1941, the parties signed aNeutrality Pact, in which the Soviet Union pledged to respect the territorial integrity and inviolability of Manchukuo, while Japan agreed similarly for the Mongolian People's Republic .
  • On September 27, 1940, Imperial Japan signed the Tripartite Pact with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, establishing what would become known as the Axis Powers.
  • The pact called for mutual protection and technological and economic cooperation.
  • A Japanese propaganda poster for the Tripartite Pact: "Good friends in three countries".

• Degrees of Neutrality

  • Around the time the Tripartite Pact was signed, the United States continued to support the United Kingdom and China by introducing the Lend-Lease policy (described in Module 33.3.2) and creating a security zone spanning roughly half of the Atlantic Ocean, where the United States Navy protected British convoys.

• The European Theater

  • Although Germany and the Soviet Union were sworn enemies, on August 23, 1939, the Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and the German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop signed a non-aggression treaty known as the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
  • By late March 1941, following Bulgaria's signing of the Tripartite Pact, the Germans were in position to intervene in Greece.
  • The Yugoslav government had signed the Tripartite Pact, only to be overthrown two days later by a British-encouraged coup.

• Roosevelt's Second Term

  • Hitler and Mussolini responded to the deal by joining with Japan in the Tripartite Pact.

• The Rise of Japan

  • On September 27, 1940, Imperial Japan signed the Tripartite Pact with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
  • The pact also called for mutual protection—if any one of the member powers was attacked by a country not already at war (excluding the Soviet Union) and for technological and economic cooperation between the signatories.

• The Kellogg-Briand Pact

  • ., Germany, and France signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, a war-prevention effort that attempted to declare war illegal.
  • The Kellogg-Briand Pact was established with similar war-prevention goals in mind.
  • The United States Senate approved the Pact overwhelmingly, 85–1.
  • The Pact was initially signed initially by fifteen nations, including France, the United States, and Germany.
  • Notably, the pact served as the legal basis for the creation of the notion of crime against peace.

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

  • The Warsaw Pact was a formal response to West Germany's integration, and clearly delineated the two opposing sides of the Cold War.
  • While the Warsaw Pact was established as a balance of power or counterweight to NATO, there was no direct confrontation between them.
  • Both NATO and the Warsaw Pact led to the expansion of military forces and their integration into the respective blocs.
  • Politically, the organization sought better relations with former Cold War rivals, which culminated with several former Warsaw Pact states joining the alliance in 1999 and 2004.
  • Members of NATO are shown in blue, mostly in western Europe plus Greece and Turkey, with members of the Warsaw Pact in red, in eastern Europe.

• Promoting Peace Abroad

  • Coolidge's best-known foreign policy initiative was the Kellogg–Briand Pact of 1928, named for Coolidge's Secretary of State, Frank B.
  • This map indicates the nations that were party to the Kellog-Briand Pact of 1928 and their degree of involvement in the treaty.
  • Describe economic and political neocolonialism, as well as the Kellog-Briand Pact of 1928

• Attempts at Disarmament

  • The principal treaty concluded at Locarno was the Rhineland Pact between Germany, France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, and Italy.
  • In August 1928, Germany, France and the United States signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, brainchild of American Secretary of State Frank Kellogg and French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand (following the original signatories, other nations joined, eventually reaching the number of 62).
  • The Pact was an international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them."
  • However, it did not hold the United States to the conditions of any existing treaties, it still allowed European nations the right to self-defense, and it stated that if one nation broke the Pact, it would be up to the other signatories to enforce it.
  • The Kellogg-Briand Pact was more of a sign of good intentions on the part of the US, rather than a legitimate step towards the sustenance of world peace.