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It began offically with Germany invading Poland.
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The Soviet Unoin attacked Poland with Germany after signing a peace treaty with Japan.
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Fearing that the Axis powers would take over their navy, so they acted first and attacked them.
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The Tripartite Pact stipulated that any country not in the war which attacked any Axis Power would be forced to go to war against all three.
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This helped the Britsh in naval warfare againt the Axis.
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Germany, Italy and Romania invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
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With freshly mobilised reserves, and secure borders in the East they can attack.
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These attacks led the United States, Britain, China, Australia and several other states to formally declare war on Japan, whereas the Soviet Union, being heavily involved in large-scale hostilities with European Axis countries, preferred to maintain a neutrality agreement with Japan. Germany, followed by the other Axis states, declared war on the United States in solidarity with Japan, citing as justification the American attacks on German submarines and merchant ships that had been ordered
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