Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Ebe ọ bụ na mmeri nke France bụ ihe a na-apụghị izere ezere, Ịtali banyere agha ahụ na 10 June 1940, na-emezu ọrụ ya na Pact of Steel. Mussolini nwere olile anya ijide ngwa ngwa Savoy, Nice, Corsica, na mpaghara Africa nke Tunisia na Algeria site n'aka ndị France, mana Germany bịanyere aka na nkwekọrịta nkwekọrịta (22 June: nkwekọrịta nkwekọrịta nke abụọ na Compiègne) na Marshal Philippe Pétain guzobere Vichy France, nke jigidere njikwa na ndịda France na mpaghara. Mkpebi a kpasuru ọchịchị Fascist iwe. N'oge okpomọkụ nke afọ 1940, Mussolini nyere iwu ka
bọmbụ nke Mandatory Palestine na mmeri nke British Somaliland. N'ọnwa Septemba, o nyere iwu ka a wakpo Ijipt; n'agbanyeghị ihe ịga nke ọma mbụ, ndị Briten chụpụrụ ndị agha Ịtali n'oge na-adịghị anya (lee Operation Compass). Hitler aghaghị itinye aka site n'izite ndị Afrika Korps nke Ọchịagha Erwin Rommel, bụ́ ndị bụ́ isi n'agha ahụ a lụrụ n'Ebe Ugwu Africa.