Like many other upper respiratory diseases, diphtheria is most likely to break out during the winter months. At one time it was a major childhood killer, but in the early 2000s it is rare in developed countries because of widespread immunization.
Italy joined the Pact in 1937. The RomeâBerlin Axis became a military alliance in 1939 under the so-called  Pact of Steel , with the Tripartite Pact of 1940 leading to the integration of the military aims of Germany and its two treaty-bound allies.he RomeâBerlin Axis became a military alliance in 1939 under the so-called  Pact of Steel , with the Tripartite Pact of 1940 leading to the integration of the military aims of Germany and its two treaty-bound allies.
With the invasion of North Africa (Operation TORCH), the U.S. Army in late 1942 began a ground offensive against the European Axis that was to be sustained almost without pause until Italy collapsed and Germany was finally defeated.n June 4, 1944, U.S. troops entered Rome. With D-day in Normandy only two days off, the focus of the Allied war against Germany shifted to France, and with the shift came a gradual diminution of Allied strength in Italy. Allied forces nevertheless continued to pursue the principle of the offensive.