REVISION IGCSE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY: ANTI-COMINTERN PACT. The Anti-Comintern Pact, officially the Agreement against the Communist International, was an anti-Communist pact concluded between Germany and Japan on November 25, 1936, and was directed against the Communist International.

1. ANTI-COMINTERN
PACT
IGCSE HISTORY
REVISION

2. DEFINITION
Anti-Comintern Pact was signed in 1936 and it was an agreement
between Germany, Japan and Italy (which joined in 1937) to stop the
spread of communism.

3. Question 1
This agreement was a response to which
European conflict?

4. Answer 1
The Spanish Civil War.

5. Question 2
Which two European leaders moved
closer politically following the pact?

6. Answer 2
Hitler and Mussolini.

7. Question 3
State the main provisions of the Anti-
Comintern Pact.

8. Answer 3
Germany and Japan declared their hostility to communism; neither side
would make any political treaties with the USSR.
Germany agreed to recognise the Japanese puppet regime in Manchuria.

9. Question 4
Which leader broke the terms
of the pact?

10. Answer 4
Hitler. He signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact in 1939.

11. Important
By including Japan, Hitler extended the Rome-Berlin Axis and formed a
military alliance between the three countries.