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• Displays of Power • Vs. Chilean Government
• Vs. Brazilian Rebels
• Vs. Great Britain
• All of these actions reaffirmed the Monroe
Doctrine
The Cuban Rebellion
• Cuban peasants vs.
The Spanish Empire
• “Re-concentration
Camps” – 200k
Cubans Dead
• US didn’t get involved
until Rebels
destroyed our sugar
plantations
Jingoism • “We’ve got the men
and guns…”
• Many Americans are
pro-war (many aren’t)
• Yellow journalism
whips up anti-Spanish
Sentiments
Explosion of the USS Maine
• Stationed in Havana
Cuba
• Probably a coal fire or
ammunition explosion
• Killed 250 Americans
The Last Straws
• Roosevelt tells the US
Navy to prepare for
war (with out
permission)
• McKinley demands a
truce, and Cuban
independence.
• Spain refuses and
war begins
Naval Actions
• Simultaneous attacks
on Spanish ships in
Cuba and the
Philippines.
• The Spanish Pacific
fleet is wiped out in
less than 7 hours.
• The Gulf of Mexico
Fleet will be wiped out
on July 3rd.
Land Actions
• San Juan
Hill
• Only part of
a much
larger battle
• Made Teddy
Roosevelt
even more
famous
Treaty of Paris, 1898 • The US gets…
– Guam (unincorporated territory)
– The Philippines (unincorporated territory)
– Puerto Rico (unincorporated territory)
• Spain gets…
– $20 Million
Our new colonies…
• The Philippines (who
had aided us vs. the
Spanish) wanted
independence.
– Over 200k Filipinos
died fighting the US
• Puerto Rico was
given gradual self
control
American Samoa
• Pago Pago
harbor was
used as a
refueling
station
• Set up
Midway
Island as a
refueling
station
China
• “Spheres of
Influence”
• Open Door
Policy (gives
us access to
China’s
millions of
consumers)