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| | NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Axis Powers (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | At their zenith, the Axis Powers ruled empires that dominated large parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and the Pacific Ocean, but the Second World War ended with their total defeat. |
 | | Italy was the other European power member of the Axis, belonging to the Axis in two incarnations, both under the leadership of Fascist dictator Il Duce Benito Mussolini and commonly referred to as Fascist Italy. |
 | | By the end of 1944 the Axis had been reduced to Germany and Japan (with the puppet Japanese governments in Manchukuo and Nanking) and four states being overrun by the Allies, that is, Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia, and Italy. |
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