Contents

• Introduction
• Note on Sources
• I. Pupils of Nietzsche
• II The Quarrel over Austria
  Austrian Civil War
  The Austrian Civil War , also known as the February Uprising , is a term sometimes used for a few days of skirmishes between socialist and conservative-fascist forces between 12 February and 16 February 1934, in Austria...
  
  
• III. Germany and the Attack upon Abyssinia
• IV. 'This Berlin-Rome Line is not a Diaphragm but rather an Axis
  Metaphor
  A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels." Metaphor may also be used for any rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via...
  
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• V. The Duce
  Duce
  Duce is an Italian title, derived from the Latin word dux, and cognate with duke. National Fascist Party leader Benito Mussolini was identified by Fascists as Il Duce of the movement and became a reference to the dictator position of Head of Government and Duce of Fascism of Italy was established...
  
   in Germany
• VI. Austria Lost and Won
• VII. The Führer
  Führer
  Führer , alternatively spelled Fuehrer in both English and German when the umlaut is not available, is a German title meaning leader or guide now most associated with Adolf Hitler, who modelled it on Benito Mussolini's title il Duce, as well as with Georg von Schönerer, whose followers also...
  
   in Italy

• VIII. Mediation at Munich
  Munich Agreement
  The Munich Pact was an agreement permitting the Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. The Sudetenland were areas along Czech borders, mainly inhabited by ethnic Germans. The agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe without...
  
  
• IX. The Steel Pact
  Pact of Steel
  The Pact of Steel , known formally as the Pact of Friendship and Alliance between Germany and Italy, was an agreement between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany signed on May 22, 1939, by the foreign ministers of each country and witnessed by Count Galeazzo Ciano for Italy and Joachim von Ribbentrop...
  
  
• X. 'To attack Poland
  Poland
  Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
  
   at the First Suitable Opportunity'
• XI. The Axis Shaken
• XII. The Mission of Sumner Welles
  Sumner Welles
  Benjamin Sumner Welles was an American government official and diplomat in the Foreign Service. He was a major foreign policy adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and served as Under Secretary of State from 1937 to 1943, during FDR's presidency.-Early life:Benjamin Sumner Welles was born in...
  
  
• XIII. Mussolini Declares War
• XIV. The Attack upon Greece
  Greco-Italian War
  The Greco-Italian War was a conflict between Italy and Greece which lasted from 28 October 1940 to 23 April 1941. It marked the beginning of the Balkans Campaign of World War II...
  
  
• XV. The Axis and Franco
  Francisco Franco
  Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was a Spanish general, dictator and head of state of Spain from October 1936 , and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in November, 1975...
  
  
• XVI. Operations Marita and Barbarossa
  Operation Barbarossa
  Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that began on 22 June 1941. Over 4.5 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a front., the largest invasion in the history of warfare...
  
  
• XVII. The New Order
  New Order (political system)
  The New Order or the New Order of Europe was the political order which the Nazis wanted to impose on Europe, and eventually the rest of the world, during their reign over Germany from 1933 to 1945...
  
  
• XVIII. Italy Rebels
• XIX. 'Mésalliance
  Mesalliance
  A mesalliance is a marriage with a person of inferior social position....
  
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• XX. Nazis and Neo-Fascists
• XXI. Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Appendix: The Steel Pact
• Indexes: (A) Persons (with biographical notes)

(B) Subjects and Places

External links

• Review of The Rome-Berlin Axis by Raymond J. Sontag in American Historical Review
  American Historical Review
  The American Historical Review is the official publication of the American Historical Association, established in 1895 "for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical documents and artifacts, and the dissemination of historical research." It targets readers...
  
  , Vol. 55, No. 1 (Oct., 1949), pp. 139-140.
• Review of The Rome-Berlin Axis by Eric C. Kollman in The Journal of Modern History
  The Journal of Modern History
  The Journal of Modern History is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering European intellectual, political, and cultural history, published by the University of Chicago Press in cooperation with the Modern European History Section of the American Historical Association...
  
  , Vol. 23, No. 2 (1951), pp. 177-178.
• Review of The Rome-Berlin Axis by Beatrice McCown Mattison in The American Political Science Review, Vol. 43, No. 5 (1949), pp. 1048-1049.
• Review of The Rome-Berlin Axis by Martin Wight
  Martin Wight
  Robert James Martin Wight , also known as Martin Wight, was one of the foremost British scholars of International Relations in the twentieth century...
  
   in International Affairs
  International Affairs (journal)
  International Affairs is Britain's leading peer-reviewed academic journal of international relations founded by Chatham House in 1924. It is published bi-monthly by Wiley-Blackwell . Currently its editor-in-chief is Caroline Soper...
  
  , Vol. 25, No. 3 (Jul., 1949), pp. 370-371.