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D. Israel is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, the Red Sea to the south, Egypt to the southwest and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. In 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Israel also seized the West Bank from Jordan and the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula from Egypt. In a 1979 peace treaty with Egypt, Israel agreed to completely withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula.
C. Masked Russian troops without insignia captured government and military sites in Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in February 2014 and installed a pro-Russian government. Russia then annexed the territory in March 2014. The vast majority of nations did not recognize the annexation, and economic sanctions were imposed to punish the Russian action.
D. In the 1930s Japanese aggression against China, Italian aggression against Abyssinia, and German aggression against Austria and Czechoslovakia presaged the coming of World War II. As a result, U.S President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill listed territorial integrity as their chief goal in the war.
A. Besides seizing the land of native Americans, the United States gained much of its territory in a war with Mexico. Britain once conquered lands around the world to establish the largest empire in history. Other nations used force to acquire colonies or take land from their neighbors.