Rome-Berlin Axis, Coalition formed in 1936 between Italy and Germany.
Signed by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini on May 22, 1939, it formalized the 1936 Rome-Berlin Axis agreement, linking the two countries politically and militarily.
Mr. Frum compares Mr. Hussein to Hitler and imperial Japan, and he compares "the relationship between the terror organizations and the terror states" to "the Tokyo-Rome-Berlin axis".
What is clear is that the union's reinvigorated Paris-Berlin axis, so evident in the debate over the Iraqi war, does not always act in Europe's best interests.
Its most intractable problem was national defense against the growing power of the Rome-Berlin axis, and its policy of "nonintervention" in the Spanish Civil War was denounced as appeasement.
Furthermore, Italy became the junior partner in the "Rome-Berlin Axis," and in 1938 Mussolini had to accept Hitler's annexation of Austria, bringing the German Reich right up to the Italian border.
On October 25, 1936, the Rome-Berlin Axis was proclaimed, but Italy, its strength depleted by the Ethiopian campaign and by its support for Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War, was in no condition to support Germany during the first nine months of World War II.
Hitler's need to prevent an Italian invasion was settled with the Rome-Berlin Axis, partway into the Spanish Civil War.
The head of the Kriegsmarine initially refused to provide submarines, but this changed after 24 October, upon the signing of the Rome-Berlin Axis, when it became clear to Mussolini's Italy would do the same.
In 1936 Hitler signed an Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan and a non-aggression agreement with the Fascist Italy of Benito Mussolini, who was soon referring to a "Rome-Berlin Axis".
