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Rebellion Begins in Cuba
The Rebellion of Cuba was due to a Spanish Policy.
The up roar was so lager that spain need to create Reconcentration Camp to control the Cuban. -
Reconcentration camps
Spain send the Cubans here to be used as cheap labor.
Cubans are normal starved or worked to death -
USS Maine Explodes
The USS Maine explodes out of randomness in port killing 266 people.
Yellow Journalism Blam the event on Spain, but expoled due to poor placement of the gunpoweder in the lower deck.
"rember the Maine" -
Yellow journalism
Exagerated or fake news that fooled amricans in to beliving that the Maine was hit with a bomb, but was really caused due to leaving gunpoweder neer the engine room -
The begining of the Spanish American War
U.S. supports Cuba in try to get Indepndens, and trys to help them fight Spain -
Battle of San Juan Hilll With the Rough Riders lead by Theodore Roosevelt
A battle were a spanish felt attacked the Amrican soilders.
Theodore Roosevelt,aka the Rough Riders fought back along with Buffalo Soldiers. -
Naval Battle at Santiago
A naval battle with the Infanta Maria Teresa, Cristobal Colon ,Vizcaya, Almirante Oquendo, Iowa, Indiana, New York, and The Furor. After a epic battle the Cristobal Colon was the only ship to make it out snd spain had to surrender -
Battle of Manila Bay
Frist majer battle US diffeated the Spanish flet.
short battle which the U.S. won -
War's End
After the war end, Amrica paid Spain 20 million dallors -
"Splendid Littie War"
This was John Hay's responce to the war, and how Amricans gained so much from it such as the Philippines, Guam, Samoa. and the Caribbean.
And The USA became a World Power -
Fall of Maila
it was imposible to recove from the loses from the Ballte and spain gave up and surrender. -
Signing of the Treaty of Paris
Cuba gained Indpendnce, and Amrica gains the carribean, and the philippines
