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nasir7761: 2 months ago

Why was the Nazi alliance of WWII called the Axis Powers?

In addition to the Germans of that time did the Italians or Japanese call themselves the Third Reich?

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JRhalo14: 2 months ago

only Germany was the third Reich, a Reich being the type of Government they had some of it starting back in the industrial revolution around 1850, Italy was unified and reconstructed after WWI by Mussolini, and japan was kind of at its own will but fighting the US

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Doc1887: 2 months ago | Last edited at 11:51PM on 3/22/2013

It was just a term made up by the Allied Powers to fight the Axis of Evil.It'sgot a real tone to it,which side sounds better?The first Reich was the Roman empire,the second was the Prussians and the third were the Nazis.

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JRhalo14: 2 months ago

nooo the term reich didn't come up into german (prussian) govenment, around the fall of napoleon III

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Doc1887: 2 months ago

The Nazi Ideals about the reichs,those were the first two...and Nazis were the third.

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JRhalo14: 2 months ago

the term Nazi didn't come up till after world war 1, unless that's not what your saying, the Romans were not the first Reich, like i said the term Reich is German and didn't come up till the industrial revolution

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Doc1887: 2 months ago

The term third reich,and the first two supposed reichs...Nazis being the third came from Hitler's delusional mind.

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JRhalo14: 2 months ago

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DrYourMom: 2 months ago

Yes. They were the Axis Power. How do you not know this? Didn't you learn this in school or read anything about ww2?

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Restorer: 2 months ago via iPhone

Everybody nows different things. You knowledge base might be very different.

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nasir7761: 2 months ago

What an irrelevant reply. If you don't know the reason of this name "Axis Powers" just leave it instead of this silly reply.

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