Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Spanish-American War
- Newspaper headledlines are screaming about a war in cuba
- These newspaper publishers help the
war vs. spain, it was Joseph Pulitzer and
William Randolph Hearst
- The newspaper writes crated sensational,
often exaggerated news stories. So it cause
many Americans for the Cuban rebels.
- They also created stories about Spanish brutality
- William MCKinley was elected president and made sevral events soon led to war
- They sent a U.S Battleship USS Maine to
Havana Harbor. The USS Maine mission was
to protect the U.S Citizens.
- The USS Maine exploded and sank
with a loss of 266 men
- American Press immediately
blamed Spain after the explosion
- US declared a war on spain
- Us army was 280000 men in
war but, did not have
enough rifle, ammunition,
and not appropriate clothing
either
- Landing on june 22, 1998, US troops captured the hills
around main spanish forces at Santiago
- Main US force then attacked and captured San Jaun Hill.
The Rough Riders and the African American 9th and
10th calvalries captured nearby Kettle Hill
- Spanish fleet tried to break through the bloackade that the US setup
but the Spanish lost and invaded Puerto Rico and days later Spanish
surrenderd with a signed cease-fire agreement of august 12 1898
- Spain owned Cuba and Puerto Rico, but some Cubans revolted
agains Spanish rule. So many Americans sympathized with
Cuba's fight for independence.