Germany’s U-boat warfare was another reason for Cuba’s entry into the war. This warfare was aggressive against all neutral peoples, the principles of humanity, and the principles of justice. Under these threats, they had no choice but to go to war. Another reason to go to war was the sugar trade. Cuba had to use a Swedish ruse to safely and successfully ship sugar, an ingredient in bomb-making, to Britain and France.
The U.S is not justified in annexing the Philippines and fighting a war to keep it because it was just a chance to exploit people and land to earn power and prestige. On April 25, the United States declared war on Spain following the sinking of the Battleship U.S.S. Maine in Havana harbor sent by President McKinley to protect U.S citizens. Cuba was the first to initiate its own struggle for independence. Spain used ruthless brutal tactics to bring down the revolt where the U.S intervened due to sympathy for Cuban rebels.
During the beginning of colonial settlement, Britain did not enforce strict laws upon the colonies because it wanted them to prosper. Once war broke out between the French and the British in the French and Indian war, Britain began to enforce harsher laws and greater taxes on the colonies to draw revenue for the war. This in turn, angered the colonists and they began to think twice about having another country rule them. The colonists at the time also violated the same ideals of equality of rights and rule of law when they discriminated against the African Americans, Native Americans, and the poorer white settlers by forcing people into slavery with terrible conditions and taking land just because the colonist needed it. When the French and Indian War broke out between the British and the French, Britain hoped to use the colonies as an extra source of wealth to fight the war.
The USA was influenced to war heavily by Cuba, which was still part of Spain’s American empire, In 1895 Cuba wanted to become independent however it was still under the Spanish control which made it hard to become free. When Cuban nationalists, led by Jose Marti, began a revolt against Spanish rule they were backed by America however they were quickly dealt with by the Spanish army. The president at the time William McKinley also believed in the moral perspective of the Whiteman’s burden so they supported the Cuban population. The harsh methods of the Spanish (to stop the Cuban revolt) were criticised by the Americans, where there was a strong support for American intervention in Cuba. In February 1989 those who were seeking intervention got a big opportunity as the warship, the USS Maine, was blown up whilst stationed on the harbour of Havana.
It was King Philip II that sent the Spanish armada to conquer England. Philip did this for many reasons. The first reason it that Elisabeth had made Phillip angry by refusing his marriage proposal and just by being protestant but the thing that made Philip sent the armada was that Elisabeth was funding the protestant rebellion. All of these made the one big reason for Philip to send the armada. To prepare for the armada many things had to happen.
Yes because they are notable to defend themselves. 2. How did President McKinley justify going to war against Spain over events in Cuba? They talk to try to end the hostility between them. 3.
On page 47 of Homage to Catalonia, Orwell says: “as militiamen one was a soldier against Franco, but one was also a pawn in an enormous struggle being fought out between two political theories.” This war can be seen as a proxy war between Hitler and Mussolini against Stalin, between the nationalists and the republicans, the fascist and the communists. Both France and Great Britain decided to declare the policy of non-intervention (Moruno 41). They did this in order to prevent a Second World War from starting, which is reasonable, but because of this, the Spanish Government didn’t really have a choice than to fight with what it had, unorganized children with few weapons. Both fascist Germany and Italy did not respect the agreement, supplying Franco and his revolution with military support and munitions. Since no one “except Russia and Mexico (…) had the decency to come to the rescue of the Government,” (Orwell 53) the Republicans had the need to reach out the U.S.S.R. and purchase weapons from them.
The war was fought between conflicting nations with the main goal for any respective nation being picking a side. England and Holland were against the union of French and Spanish dominions; this would have made France the dominating world power and would have diverted Spanish trade from Holland and England to France. However, on the flip side of the coin, France, England, and Holland were all against the rule of Archduke Charles because under his rule the Spanish and the Austrian branches of the Hapsburg Dynasty would have been reunited resulting in Spanish domination over European trade due to the strong link between Spain and Austria. Essentially there was the eventual formation of a Grand Alliance against the French and the Spanish. This Alliance consisted of Holland, England, Brandenburg, Portugal, Savoy, and the Holy Roman Empire.
The objectives of these reforms were to simply keep the Creoles from being superior or even on the same level as the Iberians. Of course the Spanish and the Portuguese were the ones to benefit by setting these reforms, however, in the long run, it was more beneficial to the indigenous peoples because it caused them to revolt and take back what was theirs. Spain By the 18th century, Spain was set back by foreign wars, increasing debt, declining population, internal revolts, and threats by its surrounding countries of France, England, and Holland. The Bourbon reforms of Spain were launched by the Bourbon dynasty because of increasing attacks on the Iberian empires by these foreign rivals, the need to strengthen the state and economy, and to secure its holds on the American colonies. Spanish troops were sent to New Spain to reinforce defense and military matters.
So for example if the allies in the west did not promise to rebuild Germany and try to stop every country from becoming communist when they threatened to even if it through fair vote (rare as it was). It can be argued that the cold war was an avoidable one. Firstly the Russians were very aggressive in creating a buffer zone and in fact created communist states practically all over Eastern Europe and made much more than a buffer zone and Stalin was at the heart of all these communist political movements and was trying to spread his influence to even Italy and France. This worried the west very much because they thought their very freedom was being threatened but more importantly the more states that became communist the less ttade there was. The west needed trade partners in the east and they couldn’t trade with communist states.