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2002 In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush likens Iraq, Iran and North Korea to an 'axis of evil'

1988 Axis Sally, Mildred E Gillars, U.S. nazi propagandist (WW II), dies

1955 20.33" (51.64 cm) of rainfall, Axis, Alabama (state record)

1948 Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally) pleads innocent in Washington D.C.

1943 Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany

1943 Axis forces in North Africa surrender

1943 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg

1942 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace

1942 U.S. and 25 other countries sign a united declaration against the Axis

1941 Winston Churchill becomes 1st British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing"

1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight

1940 Nazi-Germany, Italy and Japan sign 10 year formal alliance (Axis)

1939 Germany and Italy announced an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis

1936 Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an "axis"


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