AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
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Great Britain
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United States
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Cuba
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Spain
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Detailed explanation-1: -Summary. After Spain’s defeat by U.S. and Cuban forces during the War of 1898, Spain relinquished sovereignty over Cuba.
Detailed explanation-2: -The war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898. As a result Spain lost its control over the remains of its overseas empire–Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines Islands, Guam, and other islands.
Detailed explanation-3: -However, the Spanish–American War resulted in a Spanish withdrawal from the island in 1898, and following three-and-a-half years of subsequent US military rule, Cuba gained formal independence in 1902.
Detailed explanation-4: -Yet Cuba remained one of Spain’s two colonies in the New World. (The other was Puerto Rico.) It was governed from Madrid much as it had been governed since it was first occupied and settled by the Spaniards in 1511.