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Projekt Burgundy (projected creation of a "Model Aryan Pan-European State" by the SS in 1940, initially from the Franche-Comté to Burgundy, then a restoration of Lotharingia. Never carried out due to German Occupation of France not including Vichy France territories, and Himmler moving to the Eastern Front.) [17]
The Axis powers, [nb 1] originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis [1] and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies. Its principal members were Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Empire of Japan. The Axis were united in their far-right positions and general opposition to ...
According to Suvorov, Hitler's intelligence identified the USSR's preparations to attack Germany. Therefore, the Wehrmacht had drafted a preemptive war plan based on Hitler's orders as early as mid-1940, soon after the Soviet annexations of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. On 22 June 1941, the Axis began an assault on the USSR.
1939–1940: Axis victory Occupation of most of Western and Northern Europe by Axis troops; End of the French Third Republic and creation of the Vichy regime; Strategic stalemate following the Battle of Britain; Continuation with the Defense of the Reich and the Battle of the Atlantic; Beginning of the North Africa and East Africa campaigns
In total Attlee attended 0.5 meetings, Churchill 16.5, de Gaulle 1, Roosevelt 12, Stalin 7, and Truman 1. For some of the major wartime conference meetings involving Roosevelt and later Truman, the code names were words which included a numeric prefix corresponding to the ordinal number of the conference in the series of such conferences.
On March 1, 1941, Bulgaria joined the Axis, which further unsettled Stalin after Germany had continued to ignore Stalin's November 25, 1940, Axis entry proposal. [99] After six months of preparations, Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, which ended any hope of Ribbentrop of the Soviets for the proposed alliance.
The state of the Allies and Axis powers in December 1940, showing great Axis expansion in Europe and Northern Africa. 1-8 December: Greek forces continue to drive the Italian armies back, capturing the cities of Pogradec, Sarandë, and Gjirokastër. 1 December: Bombing raids are exchanged throughout the month between Germany and Britain.
Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany had two mean of operations to extend its Sphere of influence outside Europe, consisting on intergovernmental diplomacy from the Foreign Ministries of each country with their Consulates, while also developing propaganda and subversive through unofficial agencies linked to Axis Powers, like the Fascist League of ...