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Manifest Destiny was a white nationalist,[1] expansionist,[2] and settler colonial[3] belief that advocated for the United States to expand across North America. President James Monroe later expanded Statesian colonial ambitions into Latin America and Oceania.[4] The colonial expansion of the United States inspired the later Nazi policy of Lebensraum.[5][6]
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- ↑ “The origins of Manifest Destiny can be traced to the founding of the United States as a nation-state. Its basis was and continues to be predicated on Anglo-Saxon chauvinism and imperialism. The cultural basis to its formulation was an Anglo-Saxon Protestant ethnocentric ethos, which subsequently evolved into a more inclusive Euroamerican ethos. [...] Manifest Destiny was and continues to be linked to white nationalism and liberal capitalist imperialism.”
Armando Navarro (2005). Mexicano Political Experience in Occupied Aztlan: Struggles and Change: 'Historical Antecedents to the Mexicano Political Experience in the United States; The Rise of Manifest Destiny: A Guise for U.S. Imperialism' (p. 62). Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9780759105676 [Anna's Archive] - ↑ “In the mid-19th century, the expansionist fervor was dubbed “Manifest Destiny,” coined to encapsulate Americans’ belief in a God-given right to conquer the entire North American continent – a conviction tracing back to the first settlers, who believed survival in the new world would be a sign of god’s approval.”
Gustav Graner (2025-04-23). "A New Wave of American Expansionism" ESCP International Politics Society. Archived from the original on 2025-08-27. Retrieved 2025-08-27. - ↑ “The self-serving concept of manifest destiny, the belief that the expansion of the United States was divinely ordained, justifiable, and inevitable, was used to rationalize the removal of American Indians from their native homelands.”
"Manifest Destiny and Indian Removal". Archived from the original on 2025-08-27. - ↑ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2014). An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: 'Introduction: This Land' (p. 3). [PDF] Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press. ISBN 9780807000403
- ↑ Stephen Gowans (2018). Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom: 'Suppressing a Worldwide Movement for Liberty' (p. 102). [PDF] Montreal: Baraka Books. ISBN 9781771861427 [LG]
- ↑ “For the Germans, eastern Europe represented their “Manifest Destiny.” Hitler and other Nazi thinkers drew direct comparisons to American expansion in the West. During one of his famous “table talks,” Hitler decreed that “there's only one duty: to Germanize this country [Russia] by the immigration of Germans and to look upon the natives as Redskins.””
"Lebensraum". Holocaust Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2025-08-27.