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Spanish American War

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  • Pan Americanism

    Pan Americanism
    a movement that seeks to create, encourage, and organize relationships, associations and cooperation among the states of the Americas, through diplomatic, political, economic, and social means.

  • USS Maine

    USS Maine
    a United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor during the Cuban revolt against Spain, an event that became a major political issue in the United States

  • Yellow Journalism

    Yellow Journalism
    The main impact that “yellow journalism” had on the Spanish American War was to push the United States towards getting involved in that war. William Randolph Hearst is famous for having used his newspapers to push for American involvement in the war.

  • Treaty of Paris (1898)

    Treaty of Paris (1898)
    gave the US temporary control of Cuba as well as indefinite colonial control of Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Guam and Puerto Rico remain US territories today. The US was able to win the Spanish-American War primarily because of superior naval power.