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The Tripartite Pact (also called the Three-Power Pact, the Axis Pact, the Three-way Pact or the Tripartite Treaty), an agreement signed in Berlin on September 27, 1940, linked Germany, Italy and Japan as the Axis powers of World War II. On November 24, 1940, Slovakia also signed the Tripartite Pact.
The Shop on Main Street is a 1965 Czechoslovakian film [52] about the Aryanization program during World War II in the Slovak Republic. The film won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, [53] and actress Ida Kamińska was nominated one year later for Best Actress in a Leading Role. [54] It was entered into the 1965 Cannes Film ...
De Bono's invasion of Ethiopia (Italian military operation to annex Ethiopian Empire) [4] Map of the Italian operations during the conquest of Ethiopia. Italian conquest of Absinia after the Second Italo-Ethiopian War in 1936; Axis operations and territorial ambitions during Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) Italian military intervention in Spain
Slovakia joined the Czechs to form Czechoslovakia after World War I, though tensions between Czechs and Slovaks persisted. During World War II, Slovakia became a Nazi-aligned puppet state under Jozef Tiso. Post-war, it was reintegrated into Czechoslovakia, which fell under Communist rule in 1948.
About 1.2 million Austrians served in all branches of the German armed forces during World War II. After the defeat of the Axis Powers, the Allies occupied Austria in four occupation zones set up at the end of World War II until 1955, when the country again became a fully independent republic under the condition that it remained neutral.
The European theatre of World War II was one of the two main theatres of combat [nb 18] during World War II, taking place from September 1939 to May 1945.The Allied powers (including the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union and France) fought the Axis powers (including Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy) on both sides of the continent in the Western and Eastern fronts.
The Slovak Expeditionary Army Group of about 45,000 men entered the Soviet Union shortly after the German attack.This army lacked logistic and transportation support, so a much smaller unit, the Slovak Mobile Command under command of Rudolf Pilfousek (a.k.a. the Pilfousek Brigade), was formed from units selected from this force; the rest of the Slovak army was relegated to rear-area security duty.
The book covers the Slovak Armed Forces in World War II. 2003 Czech edition, ISBN 80-206-0596-7. Igor Baka: Slovensko vo vojne proti Poľsku v roku 1939 (Slovakia during the war against Poland in 1939), Vojenská história, 2005, No 3, pg 26 – 46.