Axis powers

Axis countries and Axis Powers was a military coalition of countries that fought together against the Allies during World War II. Benito Mussolini, Prime Minister of the Fascist Italy, announced that an October 1936 agreement had created an Italo-German "axis" around which future European events would revolve. Nazi Germany made a separate agreement with the Empire of Japan at the same time. The three major powers were joined by several minor countries. The war ended in 1945 with the Axis powers losing and their alliances broken.

Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis Powers

The most important Axis countries organized the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis Powers which they formalized with the Pact of Steel and Tripartite Pact. They included:

The three flags of Axis Powers: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy until 1943, and Empire of Japan.

All three countries had authoritarian governments, which were (and still are) often referred to as fascist.

Other Axis countries

Subsequent signatories of the Tripartite Pact

In addition to the main three countries, the less important Axis countries were:

Kingodm of Hungary, under Miklós Horthy
Kingdom of Bulgaria, under Tsar Boris III (until Boris III's death in 1943 and declaring war on Germany in 1944)
Kingdom of Romania, under Ion Antonescu (until Ion Antonescu got overthrown and declaring war on Germany in 1944)
Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Under Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (until Paul got overthrown and the axis invaded)

Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia

Other countries that helped the Axis without being a part of them were:

Co-belligerent states

Finland
Thailand
Template:Country data Kingdom of Iraq (1941)

Client states

Slovakia
Vietnam (Empire of Vietnam)
Philippines (Second Republic)
Independent State of Croatia
Italian Social Republic (1943–1945)
Reorganized National Government of China
Manchukuo (Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia)
Albania (1943-1944)
Government of National Salvation
Hellenic State
Kingdom of Kampuchea
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Kingdom of Luang Prabang

Colonies and dependencies

Italy

Japan

Controversial cases

Denmark, signed treaty of mutual non-aggression; accepted German troops.
Spain, was neutral, but gave non-military assistance.
Vichy France, agreed not to resist after Northern France was conquered. Did not resist Japanese occupation of French Indochina.
Soviet Union, helped Germany invade Poland.

Manchukuo
Slovakia
Vichy France
Croatia
Italian Social Republic

Several new or rebel governments that were created by the Axis during the war are:

Burma (Ba Maw regime)

Axis Powers Media

Flags of Germany, Japan, and Italy draping the facade of the Embassy of Japan on the Tiergartenstraße in Berlin (September 1940)
Germany's Führer Adolf Hitler (right) beside Italy's Duce Benito Mussolini (left)
The signing of the Tripartite Pact by Germany, Japan, and Italy on 27 September 1940 in Berlin. Seated from left to right are the Japanese ambassador to Germany Saburō Kurusu, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Galeazzo Ciano, and Adolf Hitler.
Adolf Hitler, Führer and Reich Chancellor of the German People, 1933–1945
Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria, 1932–1934
Hideo Kodama, a wartime cabinet minister in the Empire of Japan
Japanese writer Shūmei Ōkawa, a key exponent of Japanese nationalism
Lt.Gen Hiroshi Ōshima, Japanese ambassador to Germany before and during World War II
German Führer Adolf Hitler along with General Walther von Brauchitsch, during the victory parade in Warsaw after the defeat of Poland, October 1939