Like many other upper respiratory diseases, diphtheria is most likely to break out during the winter months. At one time it was a major childhood killer, but in the early 2000s it is rare in developed countries because of widespread immunization.
Italy joined the Pact in 1937. The RomeâBerlin Axis became a military alliance in 1939 under the so-called  Pact of Steel , with the Tripartite Pact of 1940 leading to the integration of the military aims of Germany and its two treaty-bound allies.he RomeâBerlin Axis became a military alliance in 1939 under the so-called  Pact of Steel , with the Tripartite Pact of 1940 leading to the integration of the military aims of Germany and its two treaty-bound allies.
This agreement tied the countries to a formal military alliance. Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact in Berlin on September 27, 1940 known as the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis, or the Axis alliance. They were the three Axis powers known collectively as the Axis.urrent Biography, in its 1942 issue featuring Pavelic, described the Venice meeting as cementing Croatia to the Axis alliance: âDr. Pavelic went to Venice for the induction of Croatia into the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo military alliance.