List 3 reasons why Germany and Italy took aggressive military action throughout the 1930s.

- hitlers aim was to regain hegemony in Europe through an enlarged Germany

- Everything was aimed at creating a large-scale economy that would allow Germany to wage a vast and long-term war in Europe

- after the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 forced Germany hitler viewed it as a great humiliation, and he made it his mission to rectify it

- His "Four-Year Plan" was to make Germany self-sufficient in many areas so it could isolate itself from the world market and invest all its resources in arms and military buildup