Why was japan germany and italy our enemies in World War 2?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. The US went to war with them because of that. Germany and Italy had a mutual defense pack with Japan, so when the US declared war on Japan, Germany and Italy automatically declared war on the US. We were already backing Britain and France with aid for fighting Germany and Italy.
Germany was the principal Axis power in Europe. Its official name was Deutsches Reich (German Reich) and after 1943, Grossdeutsches Reich (Greater German Reich), but during this period is most commonly known as Nazi Germany after its ruling National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Germany was headed by Führer and Chancellor Adolf Hitler, a dictator who as Chancellor had seized absolute power in 1934 upon the death of President Paul von Hindenburg. Japan was the principal Axis power in Asia and the Pacific; officially known as Dai Nippon Teikoku, meaning “Empire of Greater Japan”, known commonly as Imperial Japan for its imperial ambitions toward Asia and the Pacific. Japan was ruled by emperor Hirohito. The constitution prescribed that teh Emperor is the head of the Empire, combining in Himself the rights of sovereignty, and exercises them, according to the provisions of the present Constitution and that The Emperor has the supreme command of the Army and the Naavy Italy was the other
