What led to additional deaths during the Thirty Years’ War? The Holy Roman Empire and France were both ruled by dictators. Mercenaries were hired to kill the local people. The long, drawn-out battles led to starvation and disease. Catholics and Protestants directly attacked each other.

Germany italy and japan formed the tripartite pact in part because they: a. add chicken wings to the united states to stay out of world war ii b. share the ruling philosophies based on communist economics c. resented the agreements they were forced to sign at the munich conference d. selena territories were threatened by aggressive foreign states