He criticized the Spanish government and the way it controlled Cuba. Through yellow Journalism and anti-Spanish propaganda Hearst was able to upset the America public, and put the United States against Spain. Revolts against Spain had been occurring in Cuba for Some time. Then February 15th 1898 the USS Maine mysteriously sank in Havana harbor. This was all the America public needed.
It is clear that the press was using the Dreyfus trial to their advantage by circulating false information to get support and profit from the rapid selling of newspapers. As is seen today when a story is in the press that is going to trial the public are manipulated by what is in the newspapers as was the situation in 1894. The press used their power to manipulate the public into supporting the army, which did work for a time but after his wife Madame Dreyfus campaigned to have her husband retrialled the attitude of the public changed and the view of many. It was author Emile Zola that wrote a letter to the president of the republic accusing him of knowledge of Dreyfus’ innocence it was this
Most believed it was because of Spain and Cuba fighting in a war for Cuba to gain their independence back. The blame was on Spain right away and in weeks America and Spain were in war against each other known as the Spanish American war. The Spanish American war took place in Cuba in 1898. America won the war. Imperialism is a great thing and that is why America is a powerful country, I know this from growing up in America and I am very happy to be apart of a world power country.
· Explosion of the Maine – The USS Maine exploded in the Caribbean, and while initial reports blamed the Spanish for it, it is widely believed to have just been an internal error. The sinking was the main cause of the Spanish-American War · General Weyler – Governor of Cuba who used concentration camps to attack rebels. · Hay-Pauncefote Treaty of 1901 – Nullified the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty and gave the US the right to create and control a canal across Central America ·
Just think if Spain still had control over Cuba and Hawaii, we would have to spend more money as a country to import sugar and pineapples. With America going to war with Spain and gaining control of Hawaii and Cuba these things are not taxed as much as they would have been. During the war however, many people in Spain and supporting Spain in the war, burnt the sugar cane fields and threatened the lives of many. People against the idea of imperialism were worried about the wars that it might entail and I cannot say that I blame them. With the Spanish American War happening because of the imperialism, this brought many people in America against the idea.
It is my belief the reason behind the US expanded the foreign policy to protect the interest of the American people and to restore some type of human treatment to Cuban people after the Spaniards treated them so inhuman in concentration camps. It is also my belief that the U.S. had their own agenda for monetary purposes to prosper from trade embargo. “It wasn’t so long ago when most Americans firmly rejected global adventurism,” stated Ries and Weber. It is to be believed that that Americans was following a traditional foreign policy of non-intervention as to not seem as though they were trying to take over foreign countries. This leads me to wonder why the U.S. decided to intervene in the Spanish War.
In 1898 the Spanish- American war began when America decided to liberate the Spanish colonies Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. The US won and gained control of the colonies, although instead of liberating the colonies they had fought to free and continue the fight against imperialism they became what they had been telling the world that they resented, an empire. This was the first step the US took towards becoming the world’s toughest police officer. After the First World War was won, President Wilson proposed 14 points at the meeting in Versailles that the rest of the world should follow to gain stability and peace in the world. This was the second step.
After this war, Spain assured improvements, but the nationalists did not believe they would cooperate. In 1895 when another rebellion led by Cuban nationalists took action, the Spaniards sent about 200,000 soldiers to Cuba. The Cubans reacted by damaging any property that belonged to Spain such as the sugar mills and fields hoping this would make the Spaniards retrieve their land or so the U.S can intervene in this disaster. A year later, Spain sent General Weyler to put down those nationalists in Cuba. He decided to build concentration camps and
Souhoud Sore Dr. Nancy Ford War and American Spring 2013 From Liberation to Conquest Bonnie M. Miller In this book “From Liberation to Conquest”, Bonnie M. Miller delve about the United States involvement in Cuba fight for independence against their long time colonist; the Spanish. The Cubans revolution paved the way and made it possible for the United States to colonize other countries and Cuba being one of them through informal colony, the decline of Spain was a major factor. The author focus on the media (yellow journalism) and the part they play before, during and after the war and also how McKinley used this to his advantage. After trying for her independence twice already the Cubans were determined to obtain her independence by any means necessary. Spain, once a world super power back in her day was on her last leg when the Cubans again try for their independence.
The Spanish American War, described by Theodore Roosevelt as a “Splendid little war” was one of the first conflicts that was fought on a global scale, in fact the struggle between Spain and its allies against The United States of America took place in Cuba, the Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico. The war was a result of prolonged tensions between the Spanish occupants of Cuba and the Cubans themselves which were striving for independence long before the U.S had any interactions with both the Cubans and Spaniards. Their first attempt in gaining national freedom was called the Ten Years War and ended with the pact of Zanjon which did not mitigate nor suppress the desire for freedom most Cubans shared. Not long after The Ten Years War, others