Axis countries facts for kids

Axis and Allies.

Axis countries and Axis Powers are the names for some countries that fought together against the Allies during World War II. The war ended in 1945 with the Axis powers losing and their alliances broken.

Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis Powers

The most important Axis countries formed an alliance called the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis Powers (1922 to 1945). They included:

Nazi Germany
Fascist Italy
Empire of Japan

All three countries had extreme right-wing governments.

Other countries

In addition to the main three countries, the less important Axis countries were:

Hungary
Romania

Other countries that helped the Axis without being a part of them were:

Several countries that were created by the Axis during the war are:

Manchukuo
Slovakia
Vichy France
Philippines (Second Republic)
Vietnam (Empire of Vietnam)
Mengjiang (Inner Mongolia)
Reorganized National Government of China
Independent State of Croatia
Province of Ljubljana

Manchukuo
Slovakia
Vichy France
Croatia

Several new or rebel governments that were created by the Axis during the war are:

Burma (Ba Maw regime)
India (Provisional Government of Free India)

Images for kids

Gustav Stresemann, Reich Chancellor of the German People, 1923, foreign minister of Germany, 1923–1929
Gyula Gömbös, Prime Minister of Hungary, 1932–1936
Fumimaro Konoe, prime minister of Japan, 1937–1940
German vehicles advancing during the Second Battle of El Alamein in the North African campaign
German soldiers during the Battle of Stalingrad in the Eastern Front campaign
Italian soldiers in the North African Campaign in 1941
Italian Fiat M13/40 tanks in the North African Campaign in 1941
Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto firing at Allied warships during the Battle of Cape Matapan
Italian Bersaglieri in the Balkans Campaign
Italian Macchi C.200 fighter aircraft during the war
Japanese soldiers crossing the border from China into the British colony of Hong Kong during the Battle of Hong Kong in 1941
Japanese soldiers march along the shore of Guadalcanal in September 1942 during the Guadalcanal Campaign
Japanese officers training Indonesian recruits
Bulgarian soldiers in Vardar Macedonia during the Balkans campaign
Hungarian Toldi I tank as used during the 1941 Axis invasion of the Soviet Union
Hungarian soldiers in the Carpathian mountains in 1944
Romanian soldiers on the outskirts of Stalingrad during the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942
A formation of Romanian IAR80 fighter aircraft
Thai Prime Minister Phot Phahonyothin (far left) with Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tōjō (center) in Tokyo, Japan, 1942
Finnish troops passing by the remains of a destroyed Soviet T-34 at the battle of Tali-Ihantala
An RAF officer investigates wrecked Iraqi artillery near Habbaniya.
Indian National Army soldiers in Asia
Manchurian soldiers training in a military exercise
Manchurian pilots of the Manchukuo Air Force
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RSI (Repubblica Sociale Italiana) soldiers, March 1944
Slovak troops led by General Ferdinand Čatloš (center) pose with a statue of Tadeusz Kościuszko in Sanok during the Invasion of Poland.
Greece, 1941–1944
Front row in order from left to right: Karl Wolff, Heinrich Himmler, Francisco Franco and Spain's Foreign Minister Serrano Súñer in Madrid, October 1940.
Francisco Franco (centre) and Serrano Súñer (left) meeting with Mussolini (right) in Bordighera, Italy in 1941. At Bordighera, Franco and Mussolini discussed the creation of a Latin Bloc.
Italian pilots of a Savoia-Marchetti SM.75 long-range cargo aircraft meeting with Japanese officials upon arriving in East Asia in 1942.
German and Japanese direct spheres of influence at their greatest extents in Autumn 1942. Arrows show planned movements to an agreed demarcation line at 70° E, which was, however, never even approximated.