Today's lesson in foreign languages!

Here's a fun German word for you!

Lebensraum (living space) - Definition

The territory that a state or nation believes is needed for its natural development, especially associated with Nazi Germany.

The need for "living space" was the justification Hitler gave for re-occupying territories lost during WWI, and then for the conquests of Austria, the Sudetenland, the Czechoslovak Republic, the Republic of Lithuania, Danzig, and eventually Poland, which started WWII.

I was just thinking about the Panama Canal, Canada, Greenland, and Mexico and for no real reason, that word popped into my head.

Enjoy!