Causes Of The Spanish American War

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As social disagreements stretched from nation to nation throughout the late 1800s, unstable political chaos resulted in a series of major wars and international incidents. Most notably, the Spanish- American War, now known as the War of 1898, was the direct consequence of an incident taking place in the capitol of Cuba. While this was arguably the most significant conflict on an international scale of the time, other issues involving China and other surrounding countries: arose as well: “While the United States was conquering the Philippines, other nations were threatening to carve up China. After Japan defeated China in the First Sino- Japanese War (1894-1895), European nations set out to exploit the weakness of the huge, virtually defensive

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