Spanish - american war :
1898 : Spain >< Cuba
reasons :
uss maine sinking :
the yellow press: investigate the war and made people feel sorry for the Cubans.
The butcher : General Valeriano Weyler. concentration camps.
Jose Marti : cuban nationalist
William Randolph Hearst :
Joseph Pulitzer:
President Mc Kinley : considered as a coward.
Enrique Dupay De Lome :
us tried to buy cuba in 1854
25 april 1898 war against Spain.
imperialists vs anti imperialists
teller amendment
guaranteed cuba to be independent after the war
Commodore George Dewey : took the philippines
Emilio Aguinaldo, ally
Teddy roosevelt : rough riders
treaty of paris : 1898 : official end of the war. gave cuba independence.
$20 millions to the philippines to have control (+ Guam and Puerto rico)
Misc : the us army was not ready for the war but the navy did well.
385 : battle deaths but 2500 soldiers who died due to disease
us became an empire for the first time
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