Anti-Comintern Pact
Proper noun
Meaning
Anti-Comintern Pact
(history) An alliance between the Third Reich and the Empire of Japan, in opposition to the Comintern, the Soviet Union, and all communists.
Examples
"From Anti-Comintern Pact to the Euro-Asiatic Bloc: Ribbentrop's Alternative Concept to Hitler's Foreign Policy Programme".
As Count Ciano noted in his diary, the Anti-Comintern Pact was "anti-Communist in theory, but in fact unmistakably anti-British."
Hillgruber, pp. 64–65 Besides converting the Anti-Comintern Pact into an anti-British military alliance, Ribbentrop argued that German foreign policy should work to "winning over all states whose interests conform directly or indirectly to ours."
In November, Finland signed the Anti-Comintern Pact (an anti-communist agreement directed against the Soviet Union) with many other countries allied with Germany.
The Anti-Comintern Pact marked the beginning of the shift on Germany's part from China's ally to Japan's ally.
The pact supplemented the Anti-Comintern Pact of 1936 and helped heal the rift that had developed between Japan and Germany following the 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union.