The Axis powers of World War II were led by a triumvirate of dictatorial figures: Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Hideki Tojo. Hitler, the Führer of Nazi Germany, was the driving force behind the war, with his aggressive expansionist policies and genocidal ideology. Mussolini, the Duce of Fascist Italy, allied with Hitler and pursued his own ambitions in the Mediterranean. Tojo, the Prime Minister of Imperial Japan, led Japan's military expansion in Asia and the Pacific, aiming to establish a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." Together, these leaders oversaw the Axis's aggressive campaigns and atrocities that characterized one of the darkest periods in human history.
