USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

[SOURCES]
Where were the two areas (theaters) of fighting in the Spanish American War?

(A) ** Pacific and Caribbean

(B) Atlantic and the Bahamas

(C) The Pacific and the Atlantic

(D) The Pacific and Indian

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The main theatres of combat in the Spanish-American War were the Philippines and Cuba. Fighting centred on Manila, where U.S. Commodore George Dewey destroyed the Spanish Pacific fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay (May 1, 1898), and on Santiago de Cuba, which fell to U.S. forces after hard fighting in July.

Concept note-2: -The war was fought on two fronts-in the Caribbean and in the Philippines.

Concept note-3: -The Caribbean theater consisted of two campaigns-the Puerto Rico campaign, which had ten battles, and the Cuba campaign, with 17 battles-while the Pacific theater had one campaign-the Philippine campaign, with two battles-and the capture of Guam.

Concept note-4: -The Spanish–American War (April 21 – August 13, 1898) was a period of armed conflict between Spain and the United States. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.