Editing Tripartite Pact (section)

=="No separate peace" agreement==
Japan first pressed Germany to join the war with the United States on 2 December 1941, only two days after notifying Berlin of its intention to go to war. Receiving no response, Japan approached Italy. At 04:00 on the morning of 5 December, Ribbentrop gave the Japanese ambassador a proposal, which had been approved by Italy, to join the war and to prosecute it jointly. On 11 December 1941, the same day as the [[German declaration of war against the United States]] and the [[Italian declaration of war on the United States|Italian declaration]], the three powers signed an agreement, already hammered out on 8 December, barring any separate peace with the United States or Britain. It was "intended as a propaganda accompaniment to the declaration of war".{{sfn|Boog|Rahn|Stumpf|Wegner|2001}}
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ARTICLE I. Italy, Germany and Japan will henceforth conduct in common and jointly a war which has been imposed on them by the United States of America and England, by all means at their disposal and until the end of hostilities.

ARTICLE II. Italy, Germany and Japan undertake each for himself that none of the parties to the present accord will conclude either armistice or peace, be it with the United States or with England without complete and reciprocal agreement [of the three signatories to this pact].

ARTICLE III. Italy, Germany and Japan, even after the victorious conclusion of this war, will collaborate closely in the spirit of the Tripartite Pact, concluded Sept. 21, 1940, in order to realize and establish an equitable new order in the world.

ARTICLE IV. The present accord is effective immediately on its signature and remains in force for the duration of the Tripartite Pact, signed Sept. 27, 1940. The high contracting parties of this accord will at an opportune moment agree among themselves the means of implementing Article III above of this accord.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pact Between the Axis Powers Barring a Separate Peace with the United States or Great Britain; December 11, 1941|url=http://avalon.law.yale.edu/wwii/tripart.asp|work=Avalon Law Project|access-date=29 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140929133056/http://avalon.law.yale.edu/wwii/tripart.asp|archive-date=29 September 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>}}