Answer:
Who were the Axis powers? What did their alliance mean for the United States? Germany, Italy, Japan and Spain. They wanted to keep the US out of the war
The Axis alliance began with Germany partnering with Japan and Italy and was cemented in September 1940 with the Tripartite Pact, also known as the Three-Power Pact, which had the “prime purpose to establish and maintain a new order of things… to promote the mutual prosperity and welfare of the peoples concerned.”