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Events on Sunday 1 November 1936 1
1936Rome-Berlin Axis proclaimedMussolini announces the alignment with GermanyAfter the October Protocols between Italy and Germany, Mussolini described the relationship in a speech in Milan as an axis around which other European states could revolve. The term came to stand for the alliance of the two fascist powers. The alliance was formalised in the Pact of Steel in 1939.