Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Kamar yadda rashin nasarar Faransa ba zai yiwu ba, Italiya ta shiga yakin a ranar 10 ga Yuni, 1940, ta cika alkawurranta ga Yarjejeniyar Karfe. Mussolini ya yi fatan kama Savoy da sauri, Nice, Corsica, da kuma yankunan Afirka na Tunisia da Algeria daga Faransanci, amma Jamus ta sanya hannu kan yarjejeniyar armistice (22 ga Yuni: Armistice na biyu a Compiègne) tare da Marshal Philippe Pétain wanda ya kafa Vichy Faransa, wanda ya ci gaba da iko da kudancin Faransa da yankuna. Wannan shawarar ta sa gwamnatin Fascist ta yi fushi. A lokacin rani na shekara ta 1940, Mussolini ya ba da umurni a kai wa Falasɗinu da ke ƙarƙashin mulkin mallaka bam
da kuma mamayar Somaliland ta Birtaniya. A watan Satumba, ya ba da umarnin mamaye Masar; duk da nasarar da aka samu a farko, sojojin Italiya ba da daɗewa ba Birtaniya suka janye su (duba Operation Compass). Hitler ya shiga tsakani tare da aikawa da Afrika Korps na Janar Erwin Rommel, wanda shine babban abin da ke cikin yakin Arewacin Afirka.