Search results
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TenminhistoryPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4973164Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/history-matters-store-2Special T...
- 4 min
- 2.2M
- History Matters
Download War Planet Online and conquer the world: https://wpo.page.link/KWLGThe Spanish-American War - Explained in 11 minutes"Spanish-American War, (1898), ...
- 12 min
- 982.4K
- Knowledgia
Jan 24, 2019 · Check out this #animatedhistory of the "splendid little war" that launched... Remember the Maine, #yellowjournalism and the rise of #TeddyRoosevelt? Now you do.
- 8 min
- 412.4K
- MrBettsClass
- Causes: Remember The Maine!
- War Is Declared
- Spanish American War Begins
- Treaty of Paris
- Impact of The Spanish-American War
The war originated in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain, which began in February 1895. Spain’s brutally repressive measures to halt the rebellion were graphically portrayed for the U.S. public by several sensational newspapers engaging in yellow journalism, and American sympathy for the Cuban rebels rose. The growing popular demand for...
Spain announced an armistice on April 9 and speeded up its new program to grant Cuba limited powers of self-government. But the U.S. Congress soon afterward issued resolutions that declared Cuba’s right to independence, demanded the withdrawal of Spain’s armed forces from the island, and authorized the use of force by President William McKinleyto s...
The ensuing war was pathetically one-sided, since Spain had readied neither its army nor its navy for a distant war with the formidable power of the United States. In the early morning hours of May 1, 1898, Commodore George Dewey led a U.S. naval squadron into Manila Bay in the Philippines. He destroyed the anchored Spanish fleet in two hours befor...
The Treaty of Paris ending the Spanish American War was signed on December 10, 1898. In it, Spain renounced all claim to Cuba, ceded Guam and Puerto Ricoto the United States and transferred sovereignty over the Philippines to the United States for $20 million. Philippine insurgents who had fought against Spanish rule soon turned their guns against ...
The Spanish American War was an important turning point in the history of both antagonists. Spain’s defeat decisively turned the nation’s attention away from its overseas colonial adventures and inward upon its domestic needs, a process that led to both a cultural and a literary renaissance and two decades of much-needed economic development in Spa...
- Missy Sullivan
- 3 min
This Library of Congress collection contains 68 short films produced during the Spanish-American War of 1898-1902. The collection calls attention to the way in which the emergence of the American Empire coincided with—and was in important ways shaped by—the birth of the cinema.
Led by President William McKinley, the U.S. government went to war for a variety of conflicting reasons, including humanitarian, economic, nationalistic, anti-imperialist, and imperialist feelings. Cuban insurgents rebelled against Spanish rule in 1895, touching off a brutal guerrilla war.
The Spanish-American War (1898) was the first significant international military conflict for the United States since its war against Mexico in 1846; it came to represent a critical milestone in the country’s development as an empire.
