Was the Rome-Berlin Axis against the Treaty of Versailles?

No the Rome-Berlin Axis agreement did not violate the terms of the Treaty of Versailles (1919). Germany was prohibited under Versailles from joining the League of Nations until the expiration of sevens after the treaty had been in force. She joined in 1926. As a member of the League of Nations, Germany as was any other signatory member required to arbitrate any disagreements with other nations before the League. Germany officially withdrew from the League on October 14,1933 after Japan had withdrawn in March of the same year.

The agreement grew from the Anti-Comintern Pact, entered by Germany and Japan on November 25, 1936 and was directed against Communist International (Comintern). The Soviet Union, which was under Communist control had been kept out of the League of Nations. In fact, it bolstered the worldview against communism. Italy joined in the Pact in 1937. By 1939, the Pact became the "Pact of Steel," a military alliance which promoted a worldview against communist aggression internally and worldwide.

The Versailles and Lacorno Treaties(1926) did not prohibit Germany from forming alliances although Versailles prevented an aucshless (union) with Austria which Hitler violated in 1938. Furthermore, Hitler had long violated the Versailles treaty by refusing to pay reparations (1933); Remilitarization of the Rhineland (1936); exceeding the 100,000 member limit of the military forces with reinstatement of conscription which created the Wehrmacht (1935); and so forth. These violations had been accepted by the Four Powers (United States, France, Great Britain, and Italy) and even the Eight Powers which met in Paris in 1919 as seen under Neville Chamberlain's policy of "Appeasement." Italy was a member of the Council of Four, while Japan was a member of the Eight Powers at Versailles.

Although later the violation of Versailles and other treaties were used at Nuremburg against Germany ; we must be mindful that the International Military Tribunal was the first time the international community had convened to hold aggressor nations accountable for war in the Twentieth Century. To date, the legality of the tribunals have been disputed by civilian and military persons which includes those in participated in the proceedings; thus the age old adages, "to the victor goes the spoils of war" and the "victors write history."

[edit] Rome-Berlin Axis was not used to charge the Germans as a treaty violation at Nuremburg.

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Of course it was.

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