Spanish-American War

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• The Spanish-American War

  • The Spanish–American War was a three-month conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States.
  • The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States (effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence).
  • American attacks on Spain's Pacific possessions led to involvement in the Philippine Revolution and ultimately to the Philippine–American War.
  • Liberators of Cuba, soldiers of the 10th Cavalry after the Spanish-American War.
  • Analyze the major events and contributing factors of the Spanish-American War

• The Spanish-American War

  • The Spanish-American War was a three-month-long conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States.
  • The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States.
  • The Spanish-American War was swift and decisive.
  • The war marked American entry into world affairs.
  • The war also effectively ended the Spanish Empire.

• War, Empire, and an Emerging American World Power

  • After winning the Spanish-American War in 1898, the U.S. asserted a globally-oriented foreign policy which continues to the present day.
  • The Spanish-American War thus began the active, globally oriented American foreign policy that continues to the present day.
  • The US acquired the Philippines from Spain on December 10, 1898 via the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Spanish-American War.
  • The US demanded Spain stop its oppressive policies in Cuba; public opinion (overruling McKinley) led to the short, successful Spanish-American War in 1898.
  • The 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, known today as the Rough Riders, became national heroes after the United States defeated Spain in the Spanish-American War.

• The Cuban War of Independence

  • The Cuban War of Independence was an armed conflict against Spain that led to U.S. intervention in Cuba and to the Spanish–American War.
  • The final three months of the conflict escalated to become the Spanish–American War.
  • The Spanish-American War was swift and decisive.
  • Catching the entire Spanish armada at anchor in Manila Bay, he destroyed it without losing an American life.
  • Four armored Spanish cruisers steamed out of Santiago Bay to engage the American navy and were reduced to ruined hulks.

• Spain in the Revolutionary War

  • The Spanish viewed the Revolution as a crucial opportunity to weaken the British Empire, which had caused Spain substantial losses during the Seven Years' War.
  • In April 1779, the Spanish joined France in the war, with the Treaty of Aranjuez.
  • In return, the Spanish agreed to join the American War of Independence.
  • Spain provided military assistance to the Patriots on several fronts, in European waters, the West Indies, the American Midwest, and at the Siege of Yorktown.
  • The Great Siege of Gibraltar was the first and longest Spanish action in the war, from June 16, 1779 to February 7, 1783.

• Empires in Conflict

  • The British and the Dutch vied over the colony of New Netherland, the British and the Spanish fought the War of Jenkins' Ear, and the British and the French fought in a series of wars that concluded in 1763 with the French and Indian War.
  • The War of Jenkins' Ear (1739-1748) began over Britain's supplying slaves and goods to the Spanish colonies in North America .
  • Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the second war for control of the continent, and was the counterpart of the War of the Spanish Succession in Europe.
  • Augustine, the capital of Spanish Florida, in 1702, and led one of several raiding expeditions that wiped out much of Florida's Native American population in 1704-6.
  • King George's War (1744–48) was the North American phase of the War of the Austrian Succession .

• European Wars in the Colonies

  • The War of Jenkins' Ear (1739–1748) began over Britain's supplying slaves and goods to the Spanish colonies in North America.
  • Britain and France fought four wars that became known as the French and Indian Wars—followed in 1778 with another war when France joined the Americans in the American Revolution.
  • Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the second war for control of the continent and was the counterpart of the War of the Spanish Succession in Europe.
  • Augustine, the capital of Spanish Florida, as welll as one of several raiding expeditions that wiped out much of Florida's American Indian population in 1704–1706.
  • King George's War, 1744–1748, was the North American phase of the concurrent War of the Austrian Succession.

• The Spanish Conquest

  • The Spanish explorer Francisco Pizarro, along with a small military retinue, landed on South American soil around 1526.
  • Foremost among these was the Inca Civil War, which is also known as the War of Succession or the War of Two Brothers.
  • This civil war left the population in a precarious position by the time it ended.
  • Even though the Inca Civl War made it easier for the Spanish armies to gain control initially, many other contributing factors brought about the demise of Inca rule and the crumbling of local populations.
  • Although Atahualpa successfully won the Inca Civil War and ruled as emperor, he was soon captured by the Spanish and killed in 1533.

• Madison's American Indian Policy

  • James Madison's presidency saw the continuation of the American Indian Wars as the United States expanded into and invaded indigenous territory.
  • Many consider Governor William Henry Harrison's victory over the American Indian confederacy at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 the climax of the war.
  • British traders and the Spanish government provided supplies to the Red Stick majority due to their shared interest in preventing the expansion of U.S. territory.
  • The Seminole Wars, also known as the "Florida Wars," were three conflicts in Florida between the Seminole—the collective name given to the amalgamation of various groups of Native Americans and African Americans who settled in Florida in the early eighteenth century—and the U.S.
  • The First Seminole War (1816–1819) arose out of tensions relating to General Andrew Jackson's invasions into northern Spanish Florida and offensives against the Seminoles beginning in 1816.

• The Spanish Flu

  • The Spanish Flu of 1918 was a global influenza pandemic that killed millions more people than the Great War.
  • In 1918, an influenza pandemic that became known as "Spanish Flu" or "Spanish Influenza" spread across the globe.
  • Spain was not involved in the war and had not imposed wartime censorship.
  • This mutation has been attributed to the circumstances of the First World War.
  • With masks over their faces, members of the American Red Cross remove a victim of the Spanish flu from a house at Etzel and Page Avenues, St.