Planning for global territorial expansion of the Axis powers; Germany, Italy and Japan, progressed before and during the Second World War. This included some special strike plans against the Allied nations (with similar intentions to the James Doolittle raid special Allied Strike). The Kingdom of Romania, a de facto major member of the Axis with a contribution on par with Italy's, is also included.^[1][2][3]

• Italian conquest of Absinia after the Second Italo-Ethiopian War on 1936
• Axis operations and territorial ambitions during Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
  • Italian military intervention in Spain
    • Italian occupation of Majorca (included the intention of annexing the Balearic Islands, Ceuta and Spanish morocco, and then creating a client state in Spain)
    • Operation Schulmeister (proposed cession of the Balearic Islands by the Spanish Republic to Italy in exchange of neutrality in the Spanish Civil War).^[4]
  • German involvement in the Spanish Civil War
    • Proposed cession of the Balearic or Canary Islands by the Spanish Republic to Nazi Germany in exchange of neutrality in the Spanish Civil War.^[4]
• German march into Austria (anexation of Austria into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938)
  • Operation Otto (cancelled planned invasion of Austria, never carried out due to pacifical Anschluss)
• German Occupation of Czechoslovakia (German annexation of the Sudetenland and stablishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in 1938, and of the puppet Slovak Republic in 1939)
  • Fall Grün (planned invasion of Czechoslovakia, to be carried out in September 1938. Averted by the signing of the Munich Agreement. Not to be confused with the military plan to invade Ireland by the same name, see below)
  • First Vienna Award, Slovak–Hungarian War and Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine (anexation of southern Czechoslovak territories and Transcarpathia to Hungary on March 1939)
• 1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania (German plans to invade and conquer Lithuania if they don't give Memeland to Nazi Germany, which happened on March 1939)
  • Nazi propossals of a German-Lithuanian military alliance to invade Poland during Danzig crisis, returning the Vilnius Region to Lithuania in exchange of being turned into a German Puppet State.^[5][5]
• Danzig crisis (German plans from January to August 1939 concerning Poland before the start of Polish-German War)^[6]
  • "little solution" propossed by Albert Forster (German invasion and anexation of Free City of Danzig to the Reich as a "Korperschaft", while also forcing Poland to join to Anti-Comintern Pact, making them a client state with the rest of it's borders intact and renovation of German–Polish declaration of non-aggression).
  • "big solution" supported by Nazi Party (German conquest of Danzig and Polish Corridor to the Reich, then compesating Poland, turned into a Landlocked and German Puppet state, with German support to annex parts of Soviet Ukraine in a future Nazi-Soviet War, giving Poland an exit to the Black Sea).^[7]
• Italian occupation of Albania after the Italian invasion of Albania on April 1939
• Nazi–Soviet Union relations and Nazi–Soviet economic relations [1934–1941] (Russo-German plans to develop a partition of the Eastern Hemisphere, or at least Eastern Europe, since 1 September 1939 to 1941).

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    Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (First partition of Eastern Europe: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Eastern Poland and Bessarabia to USSR's Sphere of influence. Lithuania, Western Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania to Nazi Germany's one)
    • German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty (Second Partition of Eastern Europe: Exchange of Lithuania to USSR, and Central Poland to Nazi Germany)
    • German–Soviet Border and Commercial Agreement (Final Partition of Eastern Europe: Baltic states, Eastern Poland, Bessarabia and Bukovina annexed to USSR. Western Poland and Bohemia annexed to Nazi Germany while Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria are puppet states. Finland stays independent)
  • German–Soviet Axis talks (considered plans to join the Soviet Union to the Axis powers and it's New World Order)
    • First Offer from Axis to the Soviets in Partitioning the world (Soviet Baltic states, Eastern Poland, Moldova SSR, Eastern Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, British India and Mongolia in Soviet Sphere of Influence. Finland and Sakhalin being a neutral zone between German and Japanese Empires)
    • Second Offer from Soviet to Axis in Partitioning the world (the same, but Bulgaria, Finland, Western Turkey and Sakhalin included in Soviet Sphere of Influence)

• Operation Weiß (German invasion of Poland. Carried out 1 September 1939)
  • Operation Himmler (false flag operation to provide a casus belli for the invasion of Poland, including the Gleiwitz incident)
  • German invitations to Slovakia, Lithuania,^[8] Hungary^[9] and the Ukrainian Nationalists^[10] to be part of the Fourth Partition of Poland on 4-10 September 1939. Consisting of Lithuania receiving the Vilnius Region, Hungary the Turka and Sambir citys, and Ukraine the southern Kresy (cancelled due to Soviet approachments).^[11]
    • Slovak invasion of Poland (Slovakian invasion and anexation of Polish disputed territories)
    • Canaris Memorandum of September 12, 1939 (German outlines to support the Ukrainian national uprising in Western Ukraine, before Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland, to create a pro-Nazi Ukraine puppet state against southern USSR's sphere of influence).^[12][13][14]
    • German propossals to Kazys Škirpa to transform Lithuania into a German Protectorate in the north,^[15] and the rest of Central Poland as another German Protectorate^[11] (never carried out due to 2nd Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact).
• Operation Weserübung (invasion of Denmark and Norway. Carried out 9 April 1940)
• Operation Gelb (invasion of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Carried out 10 May 1940)
• Operation Rot (invasion of France and principal western attack. Carried out 5 June 1940)
  • Case Brown (projected German-Italian invasion of Southern France through the Rhône and possibly Switzerland to avoid Maginot Line. Modiffied in lesser extentions after the great success of Gelb and Rot Operations)
• Operation Sea Lion (invasion of Great Britain after September 1940, not carried out)
  • Operation Herbstreise (a planned series of deception operations to support Sea Lion)
  • Operation Green (invasion of Ireland in support of Sea Lion, also known as Fall Grün. Not to be confused with the military plan to invade Czechoslovakia by the same name, see above)
• Operation Ikarus (invasion of Iceland, not carried out)
• Operation Felix (Spanish/German joint plan for control of Gibraltar, Canary Islands, Cape Verde, and Azores, it included the potential invasion of Portugal, Morocco and Spanish Sahara).^[16][17]
  • Unnamed operation (subsequent occupation of Madeira)^{[citation needed]}
• Unnamed operation (first attempt at reinforcing Italian Libya with German forces)^{[citation needed]}
• Operation Tannenbaum (German-Italian invasion plan for Switzerland)
• Operation Marita (invasion of Greece, Germany supporting the Italian efforts. Carried out 6 April 1941.)
• Operation Alpenveilchen (planned German invasion of Italian Albania to cross into Greece. Cancelled in favour of Yugoslav route.)
• Operation 25 (invasion of Yugoslavia. Carried out 6 April 1941)
• Operation Merkur (invasion of Crete. Carried out 20 May 1941.)
• Operation Sonnenblume (Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps reinforcing the Axis defenses of Cyrenaica in 1941)
• Operation Isabella (invasion of Portugal and Spain to counter any possible landing of Anglo-American troops in the Iberian peninsula. Prepared in May 1941 and never carried out.)^[18]
• Projected German administrative divisions of occupied western and northern territories:
  • Reichskommissariat Norwegen (implemented in 1940)
  • Reichskommissariat Niederlande (implemented in 1940)
  • Reichskommissariat Belgien-Nordfrankreich (implemented in 1944)
  • Greater Germanic Reich (theoretical planning mostly)
• Lossberg study (invasion of USSR, carried out later)

• Unnamed Italian plans to invade Yugoslavia on April 1940 (intended to be an outside conflict of the War between Germany and the Allies, never carried out due to joining Italy to the German war against Britain and France)^[19]
• Staging Plan 12 (Italian invasion of France, carried out on June 1940, there was no planning for an offensive against France beyond mobilisation)^[20]
• Operation E (Italian invasion of British Egypt, carried out on 1 September 1940)
• Bombing of Bahrain (Italian attack on British Empire's routes on Bahrain, carried out on 29 October 1940)^[21][22]
• First attempt to invade Greece (start of Greco-Italian War in October 1940)
• Projected Italian administrative divisions of occupied territories
  • Spazio vitale
    • Greater Italia
      • Italian occupation of Corsica
    • Italian occupation of France
    • Italian protectorate of Albania
  • Impero italiano
    • Italian North Africa (Italian Libya, Italian Tunisia, Italian Egypt)
    • Italian East Africa (Italian Eritrea, Italian Somaliland, Italian Ethiopia)

• Operation Südsee (German-Japanese naval plans to seizure the Northeast Passage and prepare further invasion of Siberia. Prepared on 1941 and cancelled due to the priorities of Russo-German War)
• Operation Barbarossa (invasion of USSR, carried out 22 June 1941.)
  • Operation München (joint Romanian-German invasion of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. Carried out 2 July 1941.)
  • Operation Silver Fox (plan to capture the Soviet nickel mines of Pechengsky (Finnish: Petsamo) and the port city of Murmansk. Carried out 29 June 1941.)
    • Operation Reindeer (plan to occupy the mines of Pechengsky)
    • Operation Platinum Fox (plan to capture Murmansk)
  • Sea of Azov Offensive Operation (joint German-Romanian offensive to capture the Azov coast. Carried out 12 September 1941.)
  • Operation Typhoon (strategic pincer offensive against the Moscow region. Carried out 2 October 1941.)
    • Operation Wotan (tank operation with the goal of capturing Moscow)
  • Siege of Odessa (German-assisted Romanian offensive to capture the port city of Odessa and complete the Romanian conquest of Transnistria. Carried out 8 August 1941.)
• Operation Bajadere (disputed German-Indian special forces operation for a planned strike through the Caucasus into Iran, Afghanistan and India in January 1942.)
• German plans to invade Sweden with the 25th Panzer Division in Norway (and failed attempts to have finnish co-operation) during March 1942 after the Februarikrisen.^[23]
• Operation Störfang (combined German-Romanian assault supported by Italian naval units to capture the Crimean port city of Sevastopol. Carried out 2 June 1942.)
• Operation Pastorius (failed sabotage mission to destroy military, manufacturing and transportation targets throughout the United States. Carried out 12 June 1942, but foiled during the summer.)
• Operation Herkules (attempted German-Italian air invasion of British Malta on mid-July of 1942. Cancelled due to priorize Afrika Korps land-force operations in North-Africa than air Force operation in the Mediterranean after near-disaster of paratroops on Battle of Crete).
• Operation Gertrud (projected German-Bulgarian-Armenian invasion of Turkey in case it joined the Allies in the beginning of the summer of 1942)^[24]
• Operation Ilona (a plan aiming to counter an Anglo-American invasion of Iberia by holding north Spanish and Portuguese ports to protect German positions in France. Prepared in 1942, never carried out.)^[18]
• Operation Blau (strategic summer offensive in southern USSR. Carried out 28 June 1942.)
  • Operation Fischreiher (plan to advance to the Volga river and capture the city of Stalingrad. Carried out 22 July 1942.)
  • Operation Edelweiss (plan to capture the oil fields of Baku. Carried out 23 July 1942.)
  • German plans to develop a Caspian Sea Navy (projected expansion of Axis Naval operations into the Caspian Sea, in a coastal zone through Astrakhan to Azerbaijan, with Makhachkala as principal port for the Kriegsmarine and Regia Marina to develop further attacks against Kazakhstan SSR at Atyrau and the Ural river, while also possible intervention in Anglo-Soviet occupied Iran. Never carried due to defeat at Battle of Stalingrad.)^[25]
• Operation Nordlicht (scheduled operation to capture Leningrad, planned to begin on 23 August 1942. Not carried out due to the Soviet Sinyavino Offensive on 19 August.)
• Operation S (propossed Italian attack against the US during November 1942 or any moment during 1942. Cancelled due to Italian campaign)^[26]
• Operation Polar Fox (attempted invasion of Sweden from German occupied Norway during June-July 1943)^[27]
• Operation Citadel (pincer offensives with the goal of encircling of Red Army forces after the Battle of Stalingrad. Carried out 4 July 1943.)
• Operation Theseus/Aida (invasion of Egypt and Suez Canal from Libya)
• Plan Orient (projected German invasion of Middle East and linking with Japanese forces to conquest India. Mostly by Afrika Corps in Libya and Egypt, but also troops from Bulgaria and the Balkans, and troops from Caucasus and Southern Russia)^[28]
• Operation Attila/Anton (occupation of un-occupied zone of France after allied landings in French North Africa to prevent an Allied invasion of Southern France)
• Operation Herkules (revision of previous plans to invade Malta)
• Operation François (attempt made by the German Army's Abwehr to use the dissident Qashqai people in Iran to rebelling against the British)
• Operation Pelikan (German plan for crippling the Panama Canal)
• Operation Achse (German invasion of Italy after its resignation from the Axis alliance to install a puppet government under Mussolini. Carried out 8 September 1943.)
• Operation Rabat (alleged German plan of invasion to the Vatican City to kidnap or kill Pope Pius XII. Planned to begin on late 1943/January 1944. Not carried out because the worldwide disapprobation and possible reaction of catholic population against Italian Social Republic.)^[29][30][31]
• Operation Margarethe I (German invasion of Hungary. Carried out 19 March 1944.)
• Operation Margarethe II (scheduled German invasion of Romania)
• Operation Tanne Ost (German invasion with the goal of capturing the Finnish island of Suursaari (Russian: Gogland) in the Gulf of Finland after that country signed the Moscow Armistice on Lapland War).
• Operation Tanne West (scheduled German invasion of the Finnish-controlled Åland)
• Operation Panzerfaust (second German invasion of Hungary to depose Miklós Horthy and install a puppet government. Carried out 15 October 1944.)
• German military operations in the Slovak National Uprising to retain control of Slovakia
• Operation Wacht am Rhein (also known as the Battle of the Bulge. German panzer attack through the Ardennes with the goal of recapturing Antwerp and encircling of British Allied forces in Belgium and the Netherlands)
  • Operation North Wind (plan to encircle and destroy the U.S. 7th Army and French 1st Army and recapture Strasbourg. Carried out 1 January 1945)
    • Operation Dentist (a planned follow-up encirclement of the U.S. 3rd Army. Never carried out due to the failure of North Wind.)
• Operation Spring Awakening (offensive operation on the Hungarian part of the Eastern front with the goal of recapturing Budapest, while simultaneously defending the Nagykanizsa oil fields south of Lake Balaton)
• Projected German administrative divisions in occupied eastern territories:
  • Lokot Republic (implemented in 1942)
  • Belarusian Central Rada (implemented in 1943)
  • Reichskommissariat Ostland (implemented in 1941)
  • Reichskommissariat Ukraine (implemented in 1941)
  • Reichskommissariat Moskowien (theorical planning only)
  • Reichskommissariat Kaukasien (theorical planning only)
• Projected Romanian administrative divisions in occupied eastern territories:
  • Transnistria Governorate (implemented in 1941, never fully annexed)
• Projected Italian administrative divisions in occupied eastern territories:
  • Italian Protectorate of Georgia.^[32]

Listed below are operations and invasion plans of the Japanese Empire from 1929-1942:

• Hokushin-ron (plans for a potential attack on the Soviet Union and the occupation of territories from Manchuria to Central Siberia, making a territorial expansion to the north).
• Nanshin-ron (plans for a potential attack in the Pacific Islands and then in Southeast Asia, making a territorial expansion to the south).
• Attempts to take the China Far East Railway
• Manchurian Invasion to conquer Northeast China, Mukden Incident
• Attempts to attack in Shanghai, January 28 Incident
• Attempts to invade the Chinese in Hebei province, Operation Nekka
• Attempts to invade Mongolia, Actions in Inner Mongolia (1933–1936)
• Attempts to invade the Chinese in Chahar province, Suiyuan Campaign (1936)
• Invasion into China (the "China Incident"), Second Sino-Japanese War
• Occupation of some Chinese East coastal provinces, Amoy Operation, Canton Operation, Hainan Island Operation, Swatow Operation, South Guangxi Operation
• Battles with Soviets in the Changkufeng/Khasan area, Battle of Lake Khasan
• Battles with Soviets and Mongols in Nomonhan Soviet-Japanese Border War (1939)
• Occupation of North Indochina, Indochina Expedition

• Control of all of Indochina
• Advances in the China Mainland, Second Sino-Japanese War
• Pearl Harbor strike
  • Operation K
• Operation FS (Planned conquest of Fiji, American Samoa, Samoa, and New Caledonia on July-August 1942 to cut communications between Australia and USA. Cancelled due to defeat at the Battle of Midway)
• Invasion of the Philippines
• Invasion of Thailand
• Invasion of the Dutch Indies (now Indonesia)
• Japanese Invasion of Burma
• Invasion of Guam and Wake Island
• Invasion of New Guinea/Solomons
• Christmas Island invasion
• Projected Invasion to Cocos (Keeling) Islands
• Japanese Invasion of the Gilbert Islands
• Japanese Invasion of Nauru and Ocean island
• Imphal and Kohima strikes ("Operation U") (attempts to India Invasion,"21 Operation")
• Planned occupation of Ceylon ("Invasion of Ceylon") ^{[citation needed]}
• Occupation of Andaman and Nicobar Islands
• Capture of the Attu/Kiska islands (alternative operation together with the Midway operation)
• Intent for Hawaii Invasion (Battle of Midway)^{[citation needed]}
• Kantokuen (Renewed plans for an expansion to Siberia and Central Asia. Attempts to invade the Russian Far East, Eastern Siberia and Outer Mongolia)
• Western China invasion (Szechwan invasion or "Operation 5")
• Indian Invasion^{[citation needed]}
• Planned invasion of the island of Madagascar^{[citation needed]}
• Planned total conquest of all New Guinea and Solomon Islands
• extension of south square of defensive perimeter: (Melanesia/Polynesia Areas)
  • Santa Cruz Island
  • New Hebrides
  • New Caledonia/Loyalty archipelago
  • Fiji
  • Samoa
  • Tuvalu
  • Tokelau
  • Tonga
• Rejected proposal to invade Australia
• Planned invasion of New Zealand
• Planned invasion of Panama.^[33]
• Projected Japanese administrative divisions in occupied Asian and Pacific territories:
  • Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

• Attacks on United States territory in North America during World War II
• List of World War II military operations
• Plan Kathleen