The Spanish-American War
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The war between the United States and Spain was caused by
unsettling tension between the two countries; Spain, at that time, one of
the world's great powers, maintained colonies including Cuba, which lay
only ninety miles from U.S. soil. Lasting from April until August, 1898,
the war was fought t ....
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.... draw. In 1895 a depression in
Cuba made conditions worse, and revolution again broke out threatening to
go on indefinitely as the rebels would be strong enough win, nor would the
Spanish forces be powerful enough to defeat them.
American newspapers, especially the yellow press of rival
publishers, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, printed outlandish
stories of the Spanish oppression in Cuba. They included wildly exaggerated
accounts that a quarter of the Cuban population had been ....
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