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Thanks! As a side note, I wonder if Morocco could have permanently kept its independence had WWI broken out a little earlier--or had its colonization been delayed by just a bit and then WWI would have broken out before it could be done. Thoughts on this?

Can you check? If not, though, then that's OK. Anyway, what about Morocco's invasion of Western Sahara and Indonesia's invasion of East Timor (later reversed, specifically in 2002)?

Do you know this settlement's name?

There's a settlement near Sodom?

Excellent example, Steve! Can you think of any other ones? Interwar Poland, perhaps? It took over not only Polish-majority territories, but also Ukrainian-majority, Belarusian-majority, and Lithuanian-majority territories, after all.

One could, of course, also look at Hungary's expansion into southern Slovakia on national self-determination grounds in late 1938 only for Hungary to subsequently expand into Subcarpthian Ruthenia in early 1939.

In real life, I can think of these cases of national self-determination being used as a prelude for subsequent imperialism: -Texas's successful rebellion against Mexico in 1836 and Texas being annexed by the US nine years later, in 1845, which in turn was followed by the Mexican-American War...