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
A top UN official has warned that these amount to "gradual, de facto annexation."
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026
House Speaker Mike Johnson said last week that Congress was “certainly not” considering a military annexation of Greenland.
From The Wall Street Journal • 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
Vocabulary lists containing annexation
Human Geography - Middle School
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Human Geography - High School
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Political Geography - High School
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