List of expansion operations and planning of the Axis powers

Operational plans of Germany, Italy and Romania

1939–1940

• Fall Grün
• Operation Weiß
• * Operation Himmler
• Operation Weserübung
• Operation Gelb
• Operation Rot
• Operation Sea Lion
• * Operation Herbstreise
• * Operation Green
• Operation Marita
• Operation Barbarossa
• Italian Operations: invasion of Albania, first attempt to invade Greece
• Operation Ikarus
• Operation Felix
• Unnamed operation
• Operation Gertrud
• Unnamed operation
• Operation Tannenbaum
• Projected German administrative divisions of occupied western and northern territories:
• * Reichskommissariat Norwegen
• * Reichskommissariat Niederlande
• * Reichskommissariat Belgien-Nordfrankreich
• * Greater Germanic Reich

  1941–1944

• Operation Marita
• Operation 25
• Operation Merkur
• Operation Sonnenblume
• Operation Isabella
• * Operation Ilona
• Operation Barbarossa
• * Operation München
• * Operation Silver Fox
• ** Operation Reindeer
• ** Operation Platinum Fox
• * Sea of Azov Offensive Operation
• * Operation Typhoon
• ** Operation Wotan
• * Siege of Odessa
• Operation Störfang
• Operation Blau
• * Operation Fischreiher
• * Operation Edelweiss
• Operation Nordlicht
• Operation Citadel
• Operation Theseus/Aida
• Plan Orient
• Operation Attila/Anton
• Operation Herkules
• Operation Achse
• Operation Margarethe I
• Operation Margarethe II
• Operation Tanne Ost
• Operation Tanne West
• Operation Panzerfaust
• German military operations in the Slovak National Uprising to retain control of Slovakia)
• Operation Wacht am Rhein
• * Operation North Wind
• ** Operation Dentist
• Operation Spring Awakening
• Projected German administrative divisions in occupied eastern territories:
• * Lokot Republic
• * Belarusian Central Rada
• * Reichskommissariat Ostland
• * Reichskommissariat Ukraine
• * Reichskommissariat Moskau
• * Reichskommissariat Kaukasus
• Projected Romanian administrative divisions in occupied eastern territories:
• * Guvernământul Transnistriei

  Operational plans of Japan

1929–1940

• Attempts to take the China Far East Railway
• Manchurian Invasion, Mukden Incident
• Attempts to attack in Shanghai, January 28 Incident
• Attempts to invade the Chinese in Hopei province, Operation Nekka
• Attempts to invade the Chinese in Chahar province, Suiyuan Campaign
• Invasion into China, 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
• Occupation of North Indochina, Indochina Expedition

  1941–1943

• Control of all of Indochina
• Advances in the China Mainland, Second Sino-Japanese War
• Pearl Harbor strike
• Invasion of the Philippines
• Invasion of Thailand
• Invasion of the Dutch Indies
• Japanese Invasion of Burma
• Invasion of Guam and Wake Island
• Invasion of New Guinea/Solomons
• Christmas Island invasion
• Projected Invasion to Cocos Islands
• Japanese Invasion of the Gilbert Islands
• Japanese Invasion of Nauru and Ocean island
• Imphal and Kohima strikes
• Planned occupation of Ceylon
• Occupation of Andaman and Nicobar Islands
• Capture of the Attu/Kiska islands
• Intent for Hawaii Invasion
• Renewed plans for Siberian invasion
• Western China invasion
• Indian Invasion
• Planned invasion of the island of Madagascar
• Planned total conquest of all New Guinea and Solomon Islands
• extension of south square of defensive perimeter:
• * Santa Cruz Island
• * New Hebrides
• * New Caledonia/Loyalty archipelago
• * Fiji
• * Samoa
• * Tuvalu
• * Tokelau
• * Tonga
• Rejected proposal to invade Australia
• Planned invasion of New Zealand
• Projected Japanese administrative divisions in occupied Asian and Pacific territories:
• * Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere