Exercise 2. Fill in the gaps using the following words.
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1. The two periods of expansion of the country were fundamentally different because overland expansion was the product of land hunger in which new territories were being added to the national ___ with the expectation that they would eventually become equal states in the federal Union.
2. Both countries tended to ignore the long-term _ of radioactive wastes while focusing on the immediate priority of surviving their ___.
3. She began her study expecting to find female voices offering a dissenting view, or at least a more critical response to American continental expansionism than their male ___.
4. Latin America needed US capital, which Latin Americans both sought and viewed with ___.
5. Decision-makers in Washington must ___ the awkward and enduring fact that the sum total of the United States‟ global interests and obligations is now far larger than the country‟s power to defend them all simultaneously.
6. The parties also signed an agreement on the protection of classified information, which will ___ cooperation in a wide variety of areas, such as justice and crisis management.
7. Language policies are another example of the politics of mutual respect. They can be driven so far as to ___ the use of one language, as in French speaking Quebec.
8. Macmillan‟s attempts to act as a(n) ___ between the United States and the USSR ultimately failed.
9. Kennedy was deeply concerned about nuclear ___ and with providing the Israelis with incentives to slow down.
10. The author provides a(n) ___ reading of the intertwining rhetorics of American nationalism and American expansionism known as “Manifest Destiny.”
11. The convention contained no enforcement mechanism, so a country that chose to violate the rules it had agreed to would ___ no more than a potentially embarrassing lecture. The