Pact of Steel: Meaning and Definition of

Pact' of Steel'

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  1. a military alliance concluded between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on May 22, 1939, committing each to assist the other in the event of war with another power and pledging that neither would seek a separate peace or armistice.
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