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manifest destiny
manifest destiny belief held by many Americans in the 1840s that the United States was destined to expand across the continent, by force, as used against Native Americans, if necessary. The controversy over slavery further fueled expansionism, as the North and South each wanted the nation to admit ... Read more
Aztec
Aztec , Indian people dominating central Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest. Their language belonged to the Nahuatlan subfamily of Uto-Aztecan languages. They arrived in the Valley of Mexico from the north toward the end of the 12th cent. and until the founding of their capital, Tenochtitl&... Read more
Monroe Doctrine
Monroe Doctrine principle of American foreign policy enunciated in President James Monroe's message to Congress, Dec. 2, 1823. It initially called for an end to European intervention in the Americas, but it was later extended to justify U.S. imperialism in the Western Hemisphere. Origins and ... Read more
National Socialism
National Socialism or Nazism, doctrines and policies of the National Socialist German Workers' party, which ruled Germany under Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945. In German the party name was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP); members were first called Nazis as a derisive ab... Read more
Chad
Chad , officially Republic of Chad, republic (2005 est. pop. 9,826,000), 495,752 sq mi (1,284,000 sq km), N central Africa. Chad is bordered by the Central African Republic on the south, Sudan on the east, Libya on the north, and Cameroon, Niger, and Nigeria on the west. Ndjamena is the capital an... Read more
Mississippi
Mississippi , one of the Deep South states of the United States. It is bordered by Alabama (E), the Gulf of Mexico (S), Arkansas and Louisiana, with most of the border formed by the Mississippi R. (W), and Tennessee (N). Facts and Figures Area, 47,716 sq mi (123,584 sq km). Pop. (2000)... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Expansionism"

Expansionism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History Expansionism. Expansionism—the desire of nations and empires to annex lands...arising from natural lines of demarcation or war. America's expansionism in the nineteenth century conformed to the European pattern of...
Containment
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...privately for resistance to Soviet expansionism in 1944–1945, repeating...1947 Foreign Affairs article. Soviet expansionism, he warned, born of historical...determined to resist Soviet/communist expansionism but understanding the fundamental need...
Imperialism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy ...another in a continuing unequal relationship. Thus, American expansionism dated from the beginning of the national experience, while...and peoples, and the very habit of expansion itself. The expansionism of "manifest destiny" could lead toward true imperialism...
Gadsden Purchase
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...mid‐nineteenth‐century commercial expansionism and the debate over slavery . While it did facilitate construction...leading to the Civil War . See also Economic Development ; Expansionism ; Foreign Relations: U.S. Relations with Latin America...
Expansionists
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...territory and influence throughout North America). The fires of expansionism were fueled by population growth during the 1800s. Pioneer...Canada remained in the hands of the British, the spirit of expansionism resulted in a rapid acquisition by the United States of North...
Isolationism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...Isolationist policies freed America to focus on territorial expansionism in North America, interventionism in Asia and Latin America...to dominate Europe during World Wars I and II and Soviet expansionism after World War II nevertheless shattered the illusion of...
Adams, John Quincy
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...secretary of state, Adams was an aggressive advocate of expansionism . He not only supported Andrew Jackson 's invasion of Spanish...x201D; See also Amistad Case ; Early Republic, Era of the ; Expansionism ; Federal Government, Executive Branch: The Presidency...
Insular Cases
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...outside its borders and in the U.S. involvement in international organizations. See also Expansionism . Bibliography James E. Kerr , The Insular Cases: The Role of the Judiciary in American Expansionism , 1982. Walter F. Pratt Jr.
Annexation
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...conquered territories as part of a greater state policy of expansionism. In most cases, annexation begins with the occupation of...of Madagascar by France in 1896 illustrates this form of expansionism. In 1868 a treaty between the Merina peoples and the French...
Josiah Strong
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...our civilization." Our Country also made the minister's imperialist leanings clear. Like many proponents of American expansionism at the turn of the century, Strong contended that the moral superiority of the nation's white population made America...

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expansionism, Soviet
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military expansionism, Soviet a policy of military, strategic, economic, and ideological...World , and invaded Afghanistan in 1979. The postwar era of Soviet expansionism ended with Mikhail Gorbachev 's policy of glasnost , which was designed...
Insular Cases
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...disagreement about the constitutional issues under-lying American expansionism. The "incorporation" approach emerged as a central doctrine...The Insular Cases: The Role of the Judiciary in American Expansionism. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1982. Ramos...
Open Door Policy
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...national reorganization in the Far East. First Cycle of Expansionism The first cycle of open door activity developed through the...William McKinley's administration, 1898. Second Cycle of Expansionism The second cycle of expansionist development sprang from...
National Park System
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...the national park ideal. Concerned at the rapid decimation of indigenous peoples and wildlife brought about by westward expansionism, Catlin proposed the creation of "A nation's park, containing man and beast, in all the wild and freshness of their...
Eisenhower Doctrine
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Congress voted its approval two months later. The Eisenhower Doctrine defined itself as a defensive move to contain Soviet expansionism, but response from the governments of the Middle East was mixed. Jordan and Lebanon welcomed the declaration. Egypt and...
Marshall Plan
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...foreign trade, and it dispensed over $13 billion between 1948 and 1951. It was also designed to contain Soviet and communist expansionism. It was a predecessor of NATO and the Atlantic alliance. The USSR declined to participate in the program and subsequently...
League of Nations
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...international cooperation and achieve international peace and security. It was powerless to stop Italian, German, and Japanese expansionism leading to World War II , and was replaced by the United Nations in 1945. It included provisions for arbitrating international...
Washington Conference
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...discussions resulted in a ten-year moratorium on capital-ship construction. The Washington Conference successfully placed restraints on both the naval arms race and Japanese expansionism, but by the 1930s both problems broke out afresh.
Shivaji
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...to expand Maratha territory. He had himself crowned raja in 1674; during his reign he enforced religious toleration throughout the Maratha empire and blocked Mogul expansionism by forming an alliance with the sultans in the south.
Morocco
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...and became the target for French and Spanish imperial ambitions. In the early 20th century, German opposition to French expansionism produced serious international crises in 1905 and 1911 which almost resulted in war. In 1912 it was divided between a French...

Thesaurus entries related to "Expansionism"

federate
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus federate • verb  several tribes federated in an attempt to stem the tide of white colonial expansionism synonyms : confederate, combine, unite, unify, merge, amalgamate, integrate, join (up), band together, team up.

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The Social Origins of Egyptian Expansionism During the Muhammad 'Ali Period.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...opportunity for a policy of foreign expansionism?". Muhammad Ali's Egypt is the specific instance of foreign expansionism which he has chosen to use as...structural" interpretations of expansionism when applied to early nineteenth...
DEMOCRATIC EXPANSIONISM IN "MEMOIRS OF CARWIN".
Magazine article from: Early American Literature; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...the international context of American expansionism. Through readings of contemporary...paper examines the spatial regime of expansionism that the fictional texts both develop...on which it stands. I. DEMOCRATIC EXPANSIONISM Following the Revolution, America...
Fascist Ideology: Territory and Expansionism in Italy and Germany, 1922-1945.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 9/1/2001; 597 words ; Fascist Ideology: Territory and Expansionism in Italy and Germany, 1922-1945...ideological: how did German and Italian expansionism relate to specifically Fascist values...policies that underpinned each regime's expansionism and the domestic framework which lay...
Iranian Press Warn against Expansionism of Netanyahu
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 6/1/1996; 628 words ; ...this was a manifestation of Israel's expansionism. Observers here noted that Iran is...Republic is also worried about the expansionism of the Likud Party. Both Iran News...voted for hostility, intolerance, expansionism and hatred." "To accept the peace...
A Break in Soviet Expansionism?
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/27/1988; ; 700+ words ; ...American interest in containing Soviet expansionism, taming Soviet global conduct and...policy of "containment" of Soviet expansionism that George Kennan formulated for the...This is a classic case of Soviet expansionism, and Gorbachev, for all the enlightenment...
Audience for a giraffe: European expansionism and the quest for the exotic.
Magazine article from: Journal of World History; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...speaking, two great waves of European expansionism--one in the late fifteenth and early...losses--and under such circumstances expansionism is necessarily less than fully rational...economistic explanations of European expansionism need to be complemented with an account...
Israel must shuns its policy of expansionism, UAE dailies.
News Wire article from: WAM - United Arab Emirates News Agency; 7/20/2009; 700+ words ; ...major UAE dailies have urged Israel to shun its policy of expansionism for durable peace in the region describing solution of colonies...objective cannot be achieved until Lebensraum's policy of expansionism comes to an end, the editorial concluded. (THROUGH ASIA...
Crossing empire's edge; Foreign Ministry police and Japanese expansionism in northeast Asia.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2009; 569 words ; ...Crossing empire's edge; Foreign Ministry police and Japanese expansionism in northeast Asia. Esselstrom, Erik. U. of Hawai'i...Qing and early republican China. He also analyzes Japanese expansionism , noting that that police used largely unilateral solutions...
Bush's expansionism has hit a snag
Newspaper article from: Concord Monitor; 8/27/2008; 349 words ; George Bush's democracy expansionism has hit a snag in the former Soviet vassal state of Georgia. As long as democracy was only up against third-world resistance...
KASHMIR-(Indian expansionism main hindrance in talks success; Sikandar).
News Wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International; 9/20/2004; 636 words ; ...both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) warmly welcome dialogues between Pakistan and India but the rigid ideology and expansionism strategy of India is the biggest hindrance in achieving peace in South Asia. " We will not relinquish our freedom struggle...