HISTORY IGCSE CONTENT - 20TH CENTURY OPTION - THE ROAD TO WW2: MILITARISM AND THE ANTI-COMINTERN PACT. The Anti-Comintern Pact was an agreement between Germany, Italy and Japan, that they would work together to stop the spread of Communism around the globe. This was aimed squarely at the USSR. Germany and Italy had worked well during the Spanish Civil War and had brought about a fascist victory over communism.