1 Jan 1898 Jahr - Spanish-American War

Beschreibung:

[1898]

only lastered for 4 years

Context:
- Spain's empire was shrinking (still controlled Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Phillippines)
- US had growing interest in Cuba
- yellow journalism flipped it up -> exaggerated Spanish brutality towards Cuba

Causes:
1. Cuban struggle for independence
- americans sympathized with the cuban fight for freedom
2. yellow yournalism
- exaggerated news
3. explosion of the USS Maine (Feb. 1898)
- US battleship exploded in the Havana Harbor (port in Cuba)
- cause was unclear, yet the press blaimed Spain: "REMEMBER THE MAINE! TO HECK WITH SPAIN!"
4. american imperial ambition

Effects:
1. US victory
2. Treaty of Paris (1898)
3. rise of US as a global superpower
4. Phillippine-American War

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