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Destruction of the Spanish Fleet
About 130 Spanish Ships were sent to invade England. England won because Sir Francis Drake's raid wasn’t successful. -
U.S Attempt to purchase Cuba
President Franklin Pierce offers Spain $130 million for Cuba. Spain refuses, again. (Attempts to buy or forcibly annex Cuba by invasion)
We had an interest because it is close to America. They have sugar in which we wanted. Cuba was also owned by the Spainards who he strongly disliked. -
José Martií led cuba's Civil War
Marti was a cuban poet and jouranlist who launched a revolution in 1895. Marti organised cuban resistance against Spain, using an active guerilla campaign and deliberatly destroying porperty, especially american-owned sugar millls and plantations. Marti counted on provoking the U.S intervention to help rebel achieve a free Cuba. -
The Yellow Press began to shaper American public opinion with respect to Cuba's Civil War
The Yellow Press is a type of writing that involves exaggerated efforts, or includes articles that are catchy, but not completely true. It was used to shape the way people see things and their opinions on it. -
Cuba's First war for Independence
Three wars were involved for Cuba getting their independence, Ten Year War (1868-1878) and the Little War (1879-1880), the last war was caused from yellow journalism. US forces were deployed to Cuba, Puerto Rico and Philippine Islands. -
Valeriano Weyler was sent to Cuba by Spain
Weyler put 300,000 Cubans from Central and Western Cuba into barbed-wire concentration camps to restore order. The Cubans in the concentration camps died of hunger or disease.
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Publication of the De Lome Letter
A seized Spanish letter written by de Lome caused an international crime that started anti-Spanish and pro-wars in the United States. The letter contained contents about President McKinley, which caused controversy over the US. The president demanded an apology, doing this scandal was starting to begin forces into war. -
Explosion of the USS Maine
Explosion of the uss maine - A massive explosion of unknown origin sinks the battleship USS Maine in Cuba’s Havana harbor, killing 260 of the fewer than 400 American crew members aboard. -
U.S Declares War on Spain
McKinley asked the congress to declare war on Spain to overthrow Spanish colonial. The location was less than 100 miles south of US, in Cuba. The war lasted three months, and over 400 men were killed or wounded. -
Naval Blockade of Cuba
The Us Congress passed a joint resolution that acknowledged Cuban independence. The Spanish government rejected the U.S. untimatum and immediately severed diplomatic relations with the United States. McKinley responded by implementing a naval blockade of Cuba on April 22 and issued a call for 125,000 military volunteers the following day. -
US Attack on Manila Bay
Under orders from Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Theodore Roosevelt), Admiral George Dewey made the call that the U.S destroy the Spanish fleet. This was the first battle of the Spanish American War. Four hundred Spanish sailors were killed, ten Spanish warships wrecked or captured, and only six Americans were wounded. -
Capture of Puerto Rico
The puerto rican campaign May 12, 1898 was an american military sea and land operation on the island of puerto rico during the spanish american war. The united states Navy attack the archipelago's capital, San Juan. -
US Forces invade Cuba
Conflict between spain and the united states. U.S. attacks on spain's pacific possessions led to an involvement in the philippine revolution and Ultimately to the philippine American war. -
Spanish surrender to Philippines
The battle of Manila was a short land engagement between the U.S army and its then allied philippine revolutionary war and spanish forces at the end of the Spanish-American War -
San Juan Hill/Battle for Kettle
Theodore Roosevelt's best charge, also became Cuba’s media coverage of the Spanish American war, happened in 1898, occurred near Kettle Hill. -
Armistice is signed between the US and Spain
On July 1st America won the Battle of San Juan Hill and the very next day they began a siege of Santiago. On July 3, The spaniards fleet was destroyed off Santiago by U.S warships under admiral william sampson, and on july 17th the Spanish surrendered the Cuba to America. Because of this on August 12 an Armistice was signed between Spain and Cuba. -
Treaty of Paris
On December 10, the Treaty of Paris officially ended the Spanish-American War. Puerto Rico and Guam were ceded to the United States, the Philippines were bought for $20 million. Angry Philippines who fought against Spanish during the war, immediately turned their guns, and 10 times more U.S. troops died surpressing the Philippines than in defeating Spain.
