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Treaty of Paris
Without the knowledge of the Filipinos Spain surrendered the Filipinos to the US in exchange for $20 million. -
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Philippine-American War
The war lasted 3 years and resulted in the death of over 4,200 Americans and over 20,000 filipino combatants. As many as 200,000 filipino civilians died from violence, famine, and disease. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese bombed the Pearl Harbor, a US military base in Hawaii. The Philippines were attacked 10 hours later. -
Independence from America
The US granted the Philippines independence. Earlier it was part of the US. -
Mutual Defense Treaty
Washington can easily offer aid because it signed a mutual defense treaty with Manila. A mutual defense treaty means that if either the US or Philippines gets attacked the other one will help them. They made an agreement to make an armistice for this to work. -
Visiting Forces Agreement
The US also signed a visiting forces agreement with the Philippines. Basically a visiting forces agreement is where the countries will visit each others military bases. -
Duterte calls to evict
The president of Philippines tried to evict American troops from 5 military bases in the Philippines. But he couldn't because of a previous agreement