Axis powers

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World War II faction military alliance

The Axis powers were the coalition of nations led primarily by Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan that opposed the Allies during World War II.

Aliases (14)

Axis Powers ×48
Axis powers in World War II ×4
Fascist Italy ×3
Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis ×2
Axis Powers (through Empire of Japan) ×1
Axis Powers in World War II ×1
Axis forces ×1
Axis powers (World War II, non-belligerent alignment) ×1
Axis powers (until 1944) ×1
Axis powers during World War II ×1
Axis powers of World War II ×1
AxisPowers ×1
European Axis powers ×1
World War II Axis powers ×1

Statements (62)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	World War II faction → military alliance →
alsoKnownAs	Axis → Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis →
capitalOfLeadingMember	Berlin → Rome → Tokyo →
conflict	World War II →
country	Fascist Italy → Imperial Japan → Nazi Germany →
endTime	1945 →
formedByTreaty	Anti-Comintern Pact → Tripartite Pact →
geographicScope	East Asia → Europe → North Africa → Pacific Ocean → Southeast Asia →
ideology	Nazism → fascism → militarism → ultranationalism →
leaderCountry	Fascist Italy → Imperial Japan → Nazi Germany →
majorLeader	Adolf Hitler → Benito Mussolini → Emperor Hirohito →
memberState	Bulgaria → Empire of Japan → Finland → German Reich → Hungary → Independent State of Croatia → Kingdom of Albania → Kingdom of Italy → Kingdom of Yugoslavia (pro-Axis government) → Manchukuo → Romania → Slovak Republic → Thailand → Vichy France →
notableCampaign	Attack on Pearl Harbor → Battle of France → Invasion of Poland → North African Campaign → Operation Barbarossa → Pacific War →
opposed	Allies of World War II →
outcome	defeat →
politicalGoal	establishment of hegemonic empires → revision of post–World War I order → territorial expansion →
startTime	1936 →
surrenderEvent	German Instrument of Surrender → Italian armistice of 1943 → Japanese Instrument of Surrender →
warCrimeResponsibility	Holocaust → Nanjing Massacre → Unit 731 human experimentation → systematic persecution of civilians →

Referenced by (216)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
10th Army ("Axis Powers") → 16th Army → Alfredo Guzzoni ("Axis Powers") → Bomber Wing 53 ("Axis Powers") → Colonel General Lindemann ("Axis Powers") → Croatian Air Force (WWII) ("Axis Powers") → Fighter Wing 52 ("Axis Powers") → Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin ("Axis Powers") → Friedrich Wiese → Fritz Reiser → Heinrich Dau ("Axis Powers") → Helmuth Weidling → Imperial Japanese Army 23rd Army ("Axis Powers") → JG 26 ("Axis Powers") → Luftflotte 2 → Minoru Ōta → Mutaguchi Renya ("Axis Powers") → National Republican Navy ("Axis Powers") → Nobutake Kondō → Rikichi Tsukada → Sakai Takashi → Shojiro Iida ("Axis Powers") → Shōji Nishimura ("Axis Powers") → Slovak Air Force (WWII) ("Axis Powers") → VIII. Fliegerkorps →	sideInConflict
15th Panzer Division ("Axis Powers") → 2nd Carrier Division ("Axis Powers") → Armata Italiana in Russia ("Axis Powers") → Army Group Vistula → Commander-in-Chief South → Eleventh Air Fleet ("Axis Powers") → Fascist Italy → Focke-Wulf Fw 190 → Francisco Franco ("Axis powers (World War II, non-belligerent alignment)") → German Tenth Army ("Axis Powers") → GermanArmyGroupNorth → Ion Antonescu ("Axis Powers") → Italian Empire ("Axis Powers") → Japanese cruiser Tenryu ("Axis Powers (through Empire of Japan)") → Kingdom of Bulgaria ("Axis Powers") → Kingdom of Italy ("Axis Powers") → Luftflotte 1 (in air support role) → Nazi Germany ("Axis Powers") → Panzer Army Africa ("Axis Powers") → Regia Aeronautica → Romanian 4th Army ("Axis Powers") → Royal Romanian Air Force → Sixth Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy) → Ustaše Militia →	alliance
8th Army ("Axis Powers") → Allied invasion of Sicily → Army Group South → Battle for Rome → Battle of Gazala → Battle of Malta → Battle of Medenine → Battle of Tobruk (1942) → Battle of the Dnieper → Battle of the Don Bend → Crimean campaign → European theatre of World War II → Husky → Mediterranean Theater of Operations → North African campaign → Operation Agreement → Operation Avalanche → Operation Avalanche → Operation Battleaxe → Operation Ladbroke → Siege of Tobruk → Soviet-German Front → Suzuya →	belligerent
12th Army (Red Army) → 322nd Rifle Division → Allied High Command → Balkan Campaign ("Axis Powers") → Battle of Bir Hakeim → Battle of France → Battle of the Atlantic → Big Week → Cyrenaica campaign → East African campaign → Fezzan campaign → French XIX Corps → Mediterranean Theater of Operations → Middle Don offensive → Operation Pedestal → Pacific War → RKKA → Rats of Tobruk → Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) → Southern Front → Soviet–Hungarian War → Tunisian campaign →	opponent
21st Panzer Division ("Axis Powers") → Army Group A → Battle of Perekop (1941) → Battle of the Volturno Line → China Expeditionary Army ("Axis Powers") → Ewald von Kleist ("Axis powers in World War II") → Fourth Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy) ("Axis Powers") → Gerhard von Schwerin ("Axis powers in World War II") → Gheorghe Avramescu ("Axis powers (until 1944)") → Hungary in World War II ("Axis Powers") → Jagdgeschwader 26 → Kharkov defensive operations (1941) → Operation Berlin → Operation Braunschweig → Operation Clausewitz → Operation Kogo ("Axis Powers") → Takeo Kurita ("Axis Powers") → 山下奉文 ("Axis Powers") →	side
Cairo Declaration → Chetniks → EAM → EAM (National Liberation Front) → Federal State of Croatia → Free French Forces → Free French Forces → Italian Co-Belligerent Army ("Axis Powers") → Polish forces → Southern Kingdom → Soviet Air Forces → Soviet partisans → United States Armed Forces in World War II →	opposedTo
Allied air forces → Allied forces → Allies of World War II → European resistance movements → Royal Air Force Bomber Command → Secret Intelligence Branch → Yugoslav military coup of 27 March 1941 →	opposed
10th Army (Italy) ("Axis Powers") → 5th Carrier Division ("Axis Powers") → Domobranstvo ("Axis Powers") → Japanese submarine I-168 → XLVIII Panzer Corps ("Axis Powers") →	allegiance
Hungarian 2nd Army ("Axis Powers") → Italian Trieste Division → Japanese 11th Division ("Axis Powers") → KG 53 ("Axis Powers") → Zuikaku ("Axis Powers") →	belligerentSide
Balkan theatre of World War II → Battle of the Mareth Line → Italian campaign ("Fascist Italy") → Italian campaign → Tunisian campaign →	hasParticipant
Axis forces on the Eastern Front → German-Italian Panzer Army → Independent State of Croatia → Rome–Berlin Axis → Tripartite Pact →	partOf
Imperial Rule Assistance Association → Kingdom of Albania → PNF → Republican Fascist Party →	alignedWith
Azad Hind Government → Kingdom of Yugoslavia (pro-Axis government) → Royal Hungarian Air Force →	alliedWith
Axis → Axis ("Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis") → Axis powers ("Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis") →	alsoKnownAs
European theatre of World War II ("Fascist Italy") → Lend-Lease program → Stavka →	mainOpponent
Allied merchant shipping → European Theater of Operations ("Axis forces") → Persian Corridor →	opposedBy
Battle of Anzio → Operation Strike → Operation Vulcan →	opposingForce
Benito Mussolini ("Axis Powers") → Fieseler ("Axis powers in World War II") →	associatedWith
Battle of Palembang → Soviet–Hungarian War ("Axis powers of World War II") →	combatantSide
Bir el Gubi → Defense of the Ploiești oil fields →	controlledBy
European Theater of Operations → Middle East theatre of World War II →	involves
Commander of Army Group A → Romanian 3rd Army ("Axis Powers") →	militaryAlliance
Dornier Do 17 → Macchi C.202 Folgore →	operatorType
Porajmos → Samudaripen →	perpetrator
BMW 801 → Hiryū-class aircraft carrier →	usedBy
Moscow Declaration →	addresses
World War II economic mobilization →	appliesTo
Columbia Aquila refinery →	belligerentInterest
Italian 1st Army →	belligerentOf
Operation Gomorrah →	combatant
South-East Asian theatre of World War II →	conflictBetween
9th Army (Wehrmacht) →	conflictSide
World War II defences →	constructedBy
Royal Yugoslav Army →	defeatBy
Invaders →	enemy
NDH →	establishedBy
IMT Charter ("European Axis powers") →	geographicScope
Nakajima Sakae radial engine →	geopoliticalBlock
Duce ("Axis powers in World War II") →	historicalConnotation
World War II battles →	involvesParticipant
Why We Fight (film series) →	mainSubject
Third Reich →	memberOf
Rome–Berlin Axis ("World War II Axis powers") →	memberOfSide
JG 52 ("Axis Powers") →	operatedOnSide
Operation Cherryblossom →	opposingAlliance
NDH →	politicalAlignment
57th Army (Red Army) →	primaryEnemy
Royal Yugoslav Army →	primaryEnemyAlliance
British Indian Army ("Axis Powers in World War II") →	primaryOpponent
Allies of World War II ("Fascist Italy") →	primaryOpponents
Anti-Comintern Pact →	relatedAlliance
Hermann Graf →	sideInWar
Haj Amin al-Husseini ("Axis powers during World War II") →	supported
Holocaust ("AxisPowers") →	supportedBy