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Events on Friday 27 September 1940 1
1940Tripartite Pact signedGermany, Italy and Japan form the Axis allianceOn 27 September Germany, Italy and Japan signed a pact in Berlin. They promised to help each other if any of them was attacked by a power not yet in the war, which in practice meant the United States. Hungary, Romania and Slovakia joined in November.