A Splended Little War

McKinley becomes presidant.

Mar 4, 1896

Mr. Hearst says "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war"

Mar 8, 1897

U.S.S Maine explodes

Feb 15, 1898

U.S declares War on Spain

Apr 25, 1898

Tensions rise and U.S. declares war on the Spanish

Dewey sinks Spanish fleet

May 1, 1898

The first battle of the Spanish-American War, a naval encounter between Commodore Admiral George Dewey of the U.S. Navy and Admiral Patricio Montojo y Pasarón commanding the Spanish Squadron. Called the Battle of Manila Bay it lasted just a few hours. Incidentally, the U.S. Navy reported just one casualty – death by heart attack.

theodore roesevelt resigns as secretary or navy

May 15, 1898

General Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy returns to the Philippines from his exile in Hong Kong where he had been, since the failure of the Katipunan (a Philippine Revolutionary Organization) revolt of 1892-1896.

May 19, 1898

General Aguinaldo signs the Philippine Declaration of Independence and becomes first president of the Philippines after defeating most of the Spanish Army and having encircled Manila

Jun 12, 1898

The American Anti-Imperialist League was established to oppose the U.S. annexation of the Philippines and other insular areas, alluding to a variety of legal, economic, moral grounds

Jun 15, 1898

U.S takes control over Guam from spain

Jun 20, 1898

rough riders charge saun jaun hill

Jul 1, 1898

theodore roesevelt leads rough riders

Americans destroy Spanish Caribbean

Jul 3, 1898

spanish loses Wake islands to the U.S

Jul 4, 1898

U.S takes biggest city in cuba

Jul 16, 1898

U.S takes puerto rico

Jul 25, 1898

Treaty Of Paris is signed

Oct 1, 1898

Spain surenddered and U.S gained control of cuba and Phillipines