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conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America.
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became the territory of the United States as part of the terms of the Treaty of Paris that officially ended the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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Spain renounced all claim to Cuba
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After its defeat in the Spanish-American War of 1898 , Spain ceded its longstanding colony of the Philippines to the United States in the Treaty of Paris.
