Axis Controlled Countries In WW2

In 1936, Japan and
Germany signed the Anti-Comintern Pact, an anti-communist alliance that Italy joined in 1937. In
1940, Germany, Italy, and Japan (the Axis powers) signed the Tripartite Pact and pledged
military assistance to each other. Later, other nations also joined the pact.

The Axis powers began to take over many nations. In 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia, and,
in 1939, Italy made Albania a protectorate. Japan invaded Manchuria (in China) in 1931 and
invaded Beijing in 1937. Japan also controlled Taiwan (since 1895) and Korea (since 1910). In
1937, Nazi Germany took over the Rhineland and then, in 1938, took over Austria and the
Sudetenland (part of Czechoslovakia). By the end of 1939, Nazi Germany also controlled Poland,
the Memel Territory in Lithuania, and the rest of Czechoslovakia. When the Nazis took over
Czechoslovakia, they created the Protectorate of Moravia and Bohemia and the nation of
Slovakia.