Spanish+American+War

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Table of Contents
 * Intro
 * Project
 * Spanish American War
 * Map of Spanish American War
 * Misc.

Build Up to War Pacific
 * Monroe Doctrine
 * James Monroe stated that no European countries could colonize Latin American countries.
 * Spain Violated the Monroe Doctrine by colonizing Cuba.
 * The Spaniards with Cuba were exempted because America were interested in the Carribean for sugar plantations.
 * Cuba's First Fight for Independence
 * Cuba, in 1868 fought for their independence for 10 years.
 * The Cubans lost, but, a financier, Jose Marti, kept financing and organized for an invasion of Cuba.
 * The United States Interest
 * The United States sent the USS Maine to watch over the revolution.
 * There were reports of atrocities and yellow journalists seized this opportunity and spread the word of Cubans being dumped into bottomless pits.
 * The Maine on February 15th exploded internally. US said it was Spain (Short Story) and went to war with Spain in Cuba
 * Phillipines
 * Roosevelt, the assistant Secretary of the Navy, sent a US Fleet to the Phillipines to take it.
 * The US fleet took Manila harbor, defeating the Spanish in hours with minimal US losses.
 * Guam
 * Was taken because the Spanish did not have the means to repel the Americans and surrendered.