annexation

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While the film adaptation’s political themes are toned down, the original musical focused on the dark atmosphere of the Nazi annexation of Austria and the Von Trapp family’s struggle for freedom.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026

But even a hypothetical mass annexation has a way of setting off a frenzy.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026

The U.S. has many ways to secure essential interests without annexation or coercion: expanded bases, long-term defense agreements, and a stronger allied presence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026

Though geopolitical strategists aren’t willing to rule it out entirely, they see a military annexation of Greenland as highly improbable.

From Barron's • Jan. 13, 2026

Hence when Japan sent troops to Korea and annexed it in 1910, Japanese military leaders celebrated the annexation as “the restoration of the legitimate arrangement of antiquity.”

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond