Summary:
Discusses the Spanish American War. Examines its causes. Explores well known battles. Analyzes the result of the war and its lasting effect on world events.
Introduction: In the end of the 19th century Spain, one of one the most powerful nations in the world had lost most of its colonies. Spain retained the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the island of Guam in the Pacific. The U.S. had held a long interest in Cuba they tried buying it from Spain but Spain didn't want it to sell it. Several events provoked for the U.S. to intervent in Cuba. Newspapers during that period exaggerated to boost their sales as well as to provoke American intervention with Cuba.
Cubans rebelled against Spain between 1868 and 1878 but they were not successful. Anti-Spanish sentiment soon erupted into a second war for independence Jose Marti organized a resistance.....
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