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    The Spanish-American War

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    Beginning in February of 1895, the Spanish-American War was a conflict between the United States and Spain, resulting from continuing conflict between Spain and Cuba. From the beginning, Cuba wanted independence from Spain, but after protests and rebellions Spain attacked and mutilated Cuban citizens. Through the use of newspaper articles showing the attacks on Cuba from Spain, American citizens felt sorry for the Cubans. Media including newspapers had had a dramatic effect on society over many

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    From the time of the Spanish American War to the current conflict in the Middle East, the United States went from relative isolation to increased global involvement because of their urge for humanitarianism, economic self-interest, and the search for Manifest Destiny. The consequences of this increased global involvement on American society were the increase of immigrants, increase in resources and “Yellow Press” media. The United States were the helping hand to Cuba during when America was moving

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    The Spanish-American war was a turning point in United States history. It is the time period when the Unites States started asserting it’s power in international affairs. Spain had been one of the superpowers along with Great Britain, France and Germany. Great Britain, France, Germany and Spain had established colonies through out the world. Spain’s colonies were the closest to the United States interests, so it was only natural that tensions would start to boil between Spain and the United States

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    Primarily, the Spanish- American war was not only focusing on the Caribbean but also other Spanish’s colonies that is the Philippines. Subsequently, after Spain had lost the battle against America, they signed Treaty of Paris on December 10th, 1989. In this treaty, Spanish colonies namely the Puerto Rico and Guam in the Pacific were to be handed to the US government. Moreover, Spain were to be paid for $20 million in exchange to transfer the sovereignty to US government. Nonetheless, the matter

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    This paper discusses the history of yellow journalism. This paper will explain the becoming of the name, the scandals, individuals and their newspapers that contributed to the rise of yellow journalism, and the involvement of the Spanish-American War. The phrase yellow journalism received its name from the cartoon the Yellow Kid. “Hogan’s Alley was a cartoon comic in New York, and the character that stood out the most in the comic was the Yellow Kid. The color of the pictures in this comic was

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    1.The Spanish-American War was fought in 1898. It was a very short war and had very little deaths compared to the previous wars and battles. The Spanish-American War only lasted one hundred and thirteen days. Even though the Spanish American war was a short war, it had many of very useful world-changing outcomes. The conflict began when the Cubans wanted independence from Spain. Spain would not give Cubans their independence. The Cubans go tired of begging so eventually, the United States got involved

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    The Spanish-American War, or as it might be called “little splendid war” as it spread the US powers and acquired victory at a low cost of men and material. However, the war was not very easy for the soldiers that actually went through it. I’ll be discussing the consequences of war that surrounded the soldiers who went through the war, including the consequence of acquiring the Philippines as a territory. It is no doubt that the United states has taken its position as a world power after the Spanish-American

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    when King Philip IV ruled the Franco-Spanish war had begun, this put a huge strain on Spain resources. The king’s union of arms caused a major uproar in Catalonia because they were being forced to house Castilian troops. This was evidently the cause of multiple Catalan revolts, and a still ongoing conflict. In 1975, Catalonia adopted the Spanish Constitution, in order for them to gain back their autonomy. Due to the fact that Catalonia decided to adopt the Spanish Constitution, they are not allowed

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    In 1898 the Spanish American War or nicknamed “The Splendid Little War,” began and was short lived lasting roughly four months forever changing our country for the better and the worse. Although the war might have seemed focused on freeing Cuba from Spain and gaining independence for Cuba and the Philippines, it was actually stimulated by nationalism and commercialism. Commercialism was a major factor when declaring war because the United States depended on Cuba and the Philippines for trade and

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    “War is constituted by a relation between things, and not between persons…War then is a relation, not between man and man, but between State and State…” Being between state and state, meant that it was not the people themselves, but a higher power fighting with another higher power. In order for war to survive, it needs opinion, disagreement, a cause, and power hunger. The goal of war is to win, whether that means you either stop fighting or one side won. The two most important components involved

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