Puerto Rico-claimed by the Spanish Crown in 1493 following Columbus' second voyage to the Americas-In 1898 after 400 years of colonial rule Puerto Rico was ceded to the US as a result of the Spanish-American war.-Granted US citizenship in 1917-popularly-elected governors have served since 1948-in 1952 a constitution was enacted providing for internal self government.-in plebiscites held in 1967, 1993, and 1998, voters chose to retain commonwealth status-three options for the future?Cuba-in 1898 Spain gave control of Cuba to the US with the Treaty of Paris-in 1902, the US granted Cuba its independence as promised with the Teller Amendment-the US retained the right to intervene to preserve Cuban independence and stability with the Platt Amendment-The US got control of Guantanamo Bay as well, a naval base we still have control of today.-in 1934, the Platt Amendment was repealed.Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (naval base).leader; Raul Castro.missile crisisThe Philippines-Emilio Aguinaldo declared Philippine independence from Spain in 1898-After the Spanish-American war. the us took over the island for 20 million in the 1898 Treaty of ParisPhilippine - American war-The Philippine-American war broke out after the Filipinos realized that the US wouldn't give them independence-it ended with American control over the Islands-12,000-20,000 Filipinos soldiers dead-200,000 - 1.5 million Filipino civilians die - some contend US committed genocide(planned out)-4,100ish US soldiers dead-in 1935 the Philippines was granted commonwealth status-plans for independence over the next decade were interrupted by WWII when the Japanese invaded and took them over-Allied troops defeated the Japanese in 1945-on July 4, 1946 the Philippines attained its independence(cartoon) Native Americans saying (look what they did to us, they'll do it to you, we speak from experience)(cartoon) McKinley looking at Philippines, thinking "doesn't know what to do with the Philippines"Mckinley Dimemma;"there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift ...."McKinley (uplifting and cleaning the Filipinos)Uncle Sam trying to tame the FilipinosChina-by the late 1800's it was looking as if China would be carved up like Africa had been-China wanted to prevent this from happeningThe Boxer Rebellion-rebelled against china being carved up.-killed Europeans in the processcartoon (pie thing, and the other countries carving it, and China guy telling them to stop!)
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