Curated category
20th-century military alliances
- Anglo-Soviet AgreementOn the 12th of July 1941, two men sat down in Moscow to sign a document that would reshape the war in Europe. Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's Ambassador to…
- Anglo-Polish allianceThe Anglo-Polish alliance was born on the 31st of March 1939, when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stood in Parliament and pledged that if…
- Franco-Polish allianceThe Franco-Polish Alliance was born in Paris in February 1921, signed by a Polish count and a French foreign minister against the backdrop of a war that had…
- Pact of SteelThe Pact of Steel was signed on the 22nd of May 1939, binding Germany and Italy to go to war together. Foreign ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop and Galeazzo…
- Warsaw PactThe Warsaw Pact was born on the 14th of May 1955, eight days after West Germany joined NATO. Its founding declaration accused a remilitarized Western Germany…
- ANZUSANZUS is a collective security treaty signed on the 1st of September 1951 in San Francisco, binding Australia, New Zealand, and the United States to a shared…
- Allies of World War IThe Allies of World War I were an international military coalition that, by the war's end in 1918, represented roughly 70% of the world's population, 61% of…
- Anti-Comintern PactOn the 25th of November 1936, in the offices of a semi-official diplomatic bureau that operated outside Germany's formal foreign ministry, two ambassadors…
- Axis powersThe Axis powers launched the deadliest conflict in human history, and they did it with far less unity than their opponents ever imagined.
- Central PowersThe Central Powers were the military coalition that fought against the Allied nations in World War I, a conflict that ran from 1914 to 1918.
- Tripartite PactThe Tripartite Pact was signed in Berlin on the 27th of September 1940. Adolf Hitler stood by as Joachim von Ribbentrop, Galeazzo Ciano, and Saburō Kurusu…
- Triple EntenteThe Triple Entente was not a treaty, not a binding pact, and not a formal alliance. It was, as British Foreign Office official Eyre Crowe put it, "nothing…
- Allies of World War IIThe Allies of World War II were an international military coalition that formed in opposition to the Axis powers during the war that ran from 1939 to 1945.
- Southeast Asia Treaty OrganizationThe Southeast Asia Treaty Organization was born on the 19th of February 1955, in Bangkok, and dissolved on the 30th of June 1977, also in Bangkok.