Word: expansionist
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...domestic matters, Pompidou pushed for an expansionist economic policy that would modernize French industry and improve living standards. He was determined to avoid a repetition of the unrest and riots of 1968. Until last year his approach succeeded. But then France, as the rest of the non-Communist world, was hit by soaring inflation (10.3% in 1973) that eroded real wages and led to wildcat strikes. The Gaullist candidate in the presidential elections will probably be blamed for the faltering economy, as well as a succession of untidy government scandals that the ailing Pompidou seemed unable to prevent: the illegal...
...acts of savagery under his command were the blowing up of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946, the hanging of two British sergeants, and the massacre of at least 254 Arab civilians in the village of Dir Yassin in 1948. Today Begin is better known for his expansionist belief that his country should absorb all those parts of biblical Israel that it presently occupies. But he has never fully outlived his early reputation as a militant right-wing terrorist...
...imperialism in Asia. Over the last two millenia Chiese rulers have exercised hegemony over large areas of Central Asia, the far East and Southeast Asia. At one time or another, Chinese power and influence have touched virtually every area of the world's largest continent. China has been expansionist whenever its government has been strong. Its inroads into other countries have run the gamut from cultural influence to population movement to territorial conquest. And until the modern period at least, China had retained a vision of itself as the central kingdom of Asia, a vision that consistently nurtured a belief...
Historians have rightly insisted that U.S. expansionist efforts cannot be explained along the lines of a strict cost-benefit analysis of businessmen's profits. Social conditions in the late 19th century just as domestic unrest today established the context within which expansion might be pursued...
American foreign policy from 1905 to the present day has been geared toward maintaining U.S. leadership in the partnership of industrial nations through a series of treaties, international legal agreements and institutionalized economic arrangements. Pioneered by Woodrow Wilson and Bryan, his secretary of state, this policy was neither anti-expansionist nor anti-imperialist in any real sense...