List of examples of expansionism

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The following are examples of modern and past expansionism.

[edit] Modern expansionism

• Akhand Bharat (seeks to create a larger India in the Indian subcontinent and undo the partition of British India. Includes other historical and culturally affiliated entities such as Afghanistan,Tibet,Sri Lanka , Maldives, Nepal , Bhutan)
• American Empire
• Aztlan (seeks to include south-west U.S. in an enlarged Mexico)
• Greater Albania (name for the future union of Albania and Kosovo)
• Greater China (seeks to reunite Taiwan with mainland China, take over islands in the South China Sea, and, at least among some elements in the People's Republic of China, capture territory currently held by Russia)
• Croatia to create an enlarged ethnically 'pure' Greater Croatia
• Greater Hungary (seeks to restore the 1000-year-old borders that were torn apart by the Treaty of Trianon)
• Greater Israel (seeks to create an Israeli state including all of mandatory Palestine)
• Greater Bulgaria (seeks to create a Bulgarian state including all of Macedonia, Thrace and Dobrudja)
• Greater Mongolia (seeks unite all ethnic Mongolians in an enlarged state)
• Greater Morocco (seeks to expand Moroccan territory to encompass areas ruled by the Almoravid Empire in the past)
• Greater Serbia (seeks to unite all Serbs in an enlarged state)
• Greater Somalia (seeks to unite all Somalis in an enlarged state)
• Greater Syria (seeks to create an enlarged Syria encompassing the whole of the north-west Middle East)
• Kahanism (seeks to create a state including all of Biblical Israel)
• United Macedonia (seeks to create an enlarged Republic of Macedonia covering all of traditional Macedonia
• Pan-Turkism (seeks to unite all Turkic peoples in one modern state)
• Greater Iraq by invading Kuwait
• Greater Iran by taking over shia part of Iraq

[edit] Past expansionism

• Afghanistan sought to create an enlarged Greater Afghanistan, specifically to absorb land inhabited by Pashtuns in the North West Frontier Province in modern Pakistan^{[citation needed]}
• Greece sought to expand its territory in order to have all Greeks united (Megali Idea) in one country.
• Italy (during the rule of Benito Mussolini) sought to enlarge its territory in Europe.
• Japan sought to expand to a vast territory of China, Southern Asia, and Asian Pacific during WWII.
• Nazi Germany sought to unite all ethnic Germans and take land in the east (see Lebensraum)
• USA (see Manifest Destiny) sought to expand into all of Canada during the War of 1812 and later with the Annexation Bill of 1866. Also sought to expand into Mexico, taking what is roughly today's California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico.
• Europeans sought to expand to around the world with colonialism (see Imperialism)
• The Ottoman Empire expanded its territory from Asia in today's Turkey into Africa and Europe from 1453 to 1683.