The treaty renounced warfare between the two countries. The pact itself, which was immediately made public, was supplemented by a secret protocol in which he pointed out the political alliance between the two dictatorships and nodded to the methods by which economic cooperation, already planned military and cultural by the pact should have put in place.The fact that the agreement was both defensive and offensive was an important innovation in the history of international relations, as the unusual term (ten years) and the imbalance of the military power of the two countries gave Germany the power to the initiative, which implies the ultimate Italian suppression of autonomy on its foreign policy. Officially, the Pact of Steel obliged Germany and Italy to aid the other country militarily, economically or otherwise in the event of war, and to collaborate in wartime production. Leading themes include the political takeover in 1933 of Germany by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, which ruthlessly promoted an aggressive foreign policy in violation of the Versailles Treaty of 1919, Japanese militarism against China, Italian aggression against Ethiopia, and the success of Germany in forming an agreement with the Soviet Union in August 1939 to divide up Eastern Europe. The Pact of Steel. Considering that, with the definitively fixed common borders, was created between Italy and Germany the secure base for reciprocal aid and support, the two governments reconfirm the policy that was previously agreed between them in its foundations and in its goals and has proved highly profitable, both for the development of the interests of both countries and for the maintenance of peace in Europe.The Italian people and the German people, closely united by the profound affinity of their conceptions of life and by the total solidarity of their interests, were determined to work in the future side by side and joining forces, for the security of their living space and for the maintenance of peace. Italy will gain the area of occupation of Nice.Wanting to emulate German successes in September 1940, Italy attacks English Egypt from Italian Libya. It meant that Italy and Germany would support each other in … In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included a secret protocol dividing several eastern European countries between the parties.After the Nazis rose to power in Germany in 1933, relations between Germany and the Soviet Union began to deteriorate rapidly, and trade between the two countries decreased.
In April 1941, Italy attacked Yugoslavia, but here too the Yugoslav resistance forced the Germans to intervene, to occupy the country and to wage war against the resistance fighters.
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In April 1939, Italy in view of a later action on Greece attacked the kingdom of Albania of which the king of Italy Victor-Emmanuel III becomes the sovereign beginning of May.Aware that the Italian army was not ready to wage a protracted war, Mussolini did not intervene militarily when, on September 3, 1939, the Second World War broke out.