Were they even allies with Germany, or just another one of our enimes? Info on the whole pasific side of the war would help, thanks
2006-12-06 13:35:43 · 8 answers · asked by steveo 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Japan was a part of the Tripartite Pact, subscribed also by Germany and Italy on sept. 27, 1940.
With this pact, there was the birth of a military alliance among these three nations: in case of war, every member of the alliance, should have had declared war in support of the others (and this was what really happened after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, because two or three days later, Italy and Germany declared war to US).
But there was more.
The Tripartite Pact was for the Axis nations was what the Pact of Jalta represented for the Allies: a division of the world in influence zones.
With the Tripartite Pact, Italy and Germany considered the Pacific area and Asia as a part of the world subjected to the Japanese influence or direct dominance; at the same time, Japan considered Europe and Africa as a part of the world subjected to influence and dominance of Italy and Germany.
Anyway, no Italian or German military units were involved in the Pacific Ocean, but some German submarines for a short period in the Indian Ocean, as symbolic support to Japanese military operations in Asia.
Infact, the Italian and German armies were fighting hard in Europe, Africa (vs the British) and Soviet Union and hadn't the capabilities to support directly Japan in the Pacific front.
2006-12-06 22:33:24 · answer #1 · answered by fabiolillo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Tripartite Pact was an agreement between Germany, Japan and Italy signed on Sept. 27, 1940. Read the actual agreement at the link.
2006-12-06 21:40:36 · answer #2 · answered by third_indiana_cavalry 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both Japan & Germany were facist states. They were allies on paper, but there was little really shared between them once the war actually got started.
2006-12-06 21:39:48 · answer #3 · answered by yojoewanna 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they were allies they shared technology with each other. in fact right before the Germans surrendered they sent a u-boat to japan with the blue prints to German jet technology along with other things in fact some historians say that it could have even been Germany's nuclear program
2006-12-06 21:47:58 · answer #4 · answered by ryan s 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were allies of Germany, which many found odd, due to the fact that the Japanese were definitely not Aryan, Hitler justified this by referring to them as the "Aryans of the East". During the last Century Japan has committed some of the worst War crimes in the world against China. Whole cities got gassed during WWII thanks to the Japanese.
2006-12-06 21:42:09 · answer #5 · answered by jdm6235 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No relations with Nazism at all!
2006-12-09 11:58:25 · answer #6 · answered by area52 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were both aggressive invaders of countries in their own regions, and they were run by authoritarian governments
2006-12-07 00:04:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they have a pact with each other but japaneese were not nazi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_war
2006-12-06 21:38:25 · answer #8 · answered by jf 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋