What motivated Japanese, German, and Italian aggression in the 1930s?

Japan, Italy,
and Germany comprised the Axis powers in(1939€“1945). They would lose that momentous struggle
against the Allied powers after a very bloody and destructive war.

By the
1930s, Japan was ready for further expansionism. Its military had won its previous conflicts
against China (1895), Russia (1905), and in World War I. Japan's economy was in dire straits,
and Tokyo was worried about its ability to feed its growing population. Also, the Japanese were
chafed by Western powers who treated them as inferiors. Some military officers praised the
memory of the samurai and sought...