Editing Axis powers (section)

==Ideology==

The Axis powers' primary goal was territorial expansion at the expense of their neighbors.<ref>Shelley Baranowski. ''Axis Imperialism in the Second World War''. Oxford University Press, 2014.</ref> In ideological terms, the Axis described their goals as breaking the hegemony of the plutocratic [[Western world|Western powers]] and defending civilization from [[communism]].{{citation needed|date=May 2024}} The Axis championed a number of variants on [[fascism]], [[militarism]], [[conservatism]] and [[autarky]].<ref>Stanley G. Payne. ''A History of Fascism, 1914–1945''. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. p. 379.</ref> Creation of territorially contiguous autarkic empires was a common goal of all three major Axis powers.<ref name="Hedinger1">{{cite journal |last1=Hedinger |first1=Daniel |title=The imperial nexus: the Second World War and the Axis in global perspective |journal=Journal of Global History |date=8 June 2017 |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=184–205 |doi=10.1017/S1740022817000043 |doi-access=free | issn=1740-0228}}</ref>