expansionism
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His version of American expansionism is thus a kind of mirror image of last 250 years of history.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Two World Wars—and the surge in destructive technology—showed that industrial warfare had made territorial expansionism devastating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026
General Brown and Mr. Austin would advise Mr. Biden on national security matters from the war in Ukraine to China’s military expansionism in the Asia-Pacific region.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2023
But the Qin’s imperial blueprint—uniform laws, consistent weights and measurements, a centralized bureaucracy, and early focus on expansionism to ward off “barbarians” in the north—provided the scaffolding for the Han’s greatness.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
But, as elsewhere throughout America, the progress is somewhat dwarfed by the population pressures and untrammeled expansionism planning must deal with.
From The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior by United States. Dept. of the Interior.
Vocabulary lists containing expansionism
STAAR U.S. History 2
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Chapter 23: Rise to World Power
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