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.
In 1912 the US forces return to Cuba to put down black protests against discrimination. 1934: The US abandons its right to intervene in Cuba's internal affairs, revises Cuba's sugar quota and changes tariffs to favour Cuba. 1958: The US withdraws military aid to Batista. Over all, these events all have lead to the build up of tension between Cuba and the USA which eventually lead to the Missile crisis. Why did Castro come to power in Cuba?
Even though the Jacobins were completely controlling the government after the arrest of the Girondins, they still feared that the Revolution would fail if they failed making them very unstable. They also feared spontaneous action. This led them to order arrests and trials of counter-revolutionaries and to impose government authority across the nation and to create the Committee of Public Safety, a
Examine the role of the United States in the outcome of the Cuban revolution= The ties and tensions between Cuba and America are historic; with America’s aid Cuba was able to assert its independence from the Spanish colonies. Yet the United States were eyeing Cuba carefully, they saw not only economic and commercial opportunities but they saw their manifested destiny of expansion. As explained by future President John Quincy in 1823, Cuba is a natural appendage of the North American continent . There are many ways in which the United States affected the outcome of the Cuban revolution but the main three is the economic and political influence the United states had over Cuba since the 1700s, the use of containment and other cold war policies implemented by the united states which forced Cuba into the arms of the Soviet union dramatically influencing the outcome of the revolution and Americas actions in Latin America and elsewhere in the world. Cuba is located only 90 miles off Florida with harbours in strategic position for enemies to threaten war or conversely for America to use as a first line of defence.
The Spanish forcefully took control of the empire and brutally murdered the emperor (Inca Empire - Google Sites). The Spanish arrived in 1532 on the conquest of Peru led by Francisco Pizarro in the city of Cajamarca and they were probably interested in the Inca empire due to it astonishing high economy (Inca Empire - Google Sites). The Spanish only came with 110 men and 67 horsemen and met with the Sapa Inca Atahualpa who thought that the meeting was peaceful and that the Spanish were showing their respect to him (The Fall of the Inca Empire). However, his belief was proven incorrect very quickly when he got captured for not swearing loyalty to the King of Spain and Pope and throwing the bible on the floor. The Spanish then went on to kill and capture Incan soldiers and Atahualpa probably realised then that the Spanish were after gold and silver and were not there for peace.
In 1588, Phillip launches the Spanish Armada in an attempt to punish Protestant subjects who had rebelled against Phillip, but this fleet was defeated. Historically, autocratic leaders have both helped and hurt their countries and their people over their authority. Louis XIV was the most powerful ruler in French history. In his view, he and the state were one and the same. “L’etat c’est moi.” means I am the state, which he stated.
He believed in democracy and free-elections for all of Mexico. His popularity caused Diaz to feel threatened, and, to deal with the issue, falsely accused Madero and put him in jail right before elections. Diaz was then reelected as president and released Madero from jail where he fled to Texas. There, he stated that Mexico’s elections were illegitimate and wrote a document declaring revolution on November 10, 1910. Mader became president and Diaz fled to Europe.
The man who started it all was Porfirio Díaz. Díaz seemed promising at the time of his election in 1877, but he quickly turned into a power hungry dictator that would defy the constitution and refuse to relinquish his presidential power for seven terms. Alan Knight wrote in his article entitled THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION, “Like many of Mexico’s nineteenth-century rulers, Díaz was an army officer who had come to power by a coup. Unlike his predecessors, however, he established a stable political system, in which the formally representative Constitution of 1857 was bypassed, local political bosses (caciques) controlled elections, political opposition, and public order, while a handful of powerful families and their clients monopolized economic and political provinces. The whole system was fuelled and lubricated by the new money pumped into the economy by rising foreign trade and investment.” (p.29) Because only a small group controlled the government and elections, Díaz was able to imprison or disempower political opponents, and fabricate election results.
Napoleon's first major mistake was made in March of 1808, when Napoleon intervened in a dispute between the present king of Spain and the king's son. He placed them both in prison and put his own brother on the throne. The people of Spain did not take too kindly to this act and so began a bloody war that was not defined by major battles, but by guerrilla warfare that kept a large number of French troops occupied to keep control of the country. French troops would end up executing hundreds of Spaniards who were thought to be resisting French power. Britain saw an opportunity to weaken Napoleon's empire by landing 13,000 troops on the coast of Portugal, where they made their way up along Spain's coastline.
The new regime headed by Prince Max, attempted some reforms but ultimately this was ineffective due to the discontent and anger within the population of the failed war. Under extreme pressure of a full-scale revolution breaking out, Prince Max announced the former Kings abdication and stepped down from his position, giving the chancellorship to the socialist leader Friedrich Ebert. (J Hite & C Hinton. 2000) A republic was then proclaimed by Phillip Schneidemann to cheering crowds, the first point of business for the new government was to sign the armistice with the Allies. This was