Step-by-step explanation:
This axis (formed in the mid-1930's) was a result of the strategic efforts of Germany, Italy and Japan to secure their own specific expansionist concerns. In 1940, with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin, these three powers become allies. The Berlin Pact acknowledged the two spheres of authority. Japan admitted “the influence of Germany and Italy in the foundation of a new system in Europe, while Germany and Italy awarded lordship to Japan across “Greater East Asia".