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After defeat in the Battle of Britain Hitler decides to invade the USSR as his ultimate goal and a way of extinguishing Britain’s last hope. However he decides the invasion shall occur in 1942 not 1941 thus giving him time to secure North Africa and the Middle East to allow another front in the 1942 invasion of the USSR. Hitler meets Mussolini at the Brenner Pass on October 4th. He tells Mussolini to avoid all action in Eastern Europe and prepare for the Invasion of Malta and then the creation of an Italian Empire in North East Africa out of Egypt and Sudan. Mussolini Agree's. Malta is captured not long after and German aircraft pour into North Africa. 3 Panzer divisions also arrive. By mid 1941 Egypt is in Axis hands and the Italians with some German support are pushing South in the Sudan. By the end of 1941 the Levant is captured and Iraq and Iran declare for the Axis. The Germans support their new allies and by May 1942 Sudan, Iraq and North West Iran are in German hands. German paratroops have also captured Aden. Turkey declare for the Axis in the same month followed by Greece in (through fear of an Axis backed Turkey) a few days later. Meanwhile Axis forces build up in Eastern Europe and the invasion of the USSR begins on May 15th 1942. No invasion initially occurs from Turkey or Iraq into the USSR but forces build on the Soviet border and air attacks begin.