HISTORY
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM
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gained control of Mexico
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became allied with Russia
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became a world power
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adopted a containment policy
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Spanish-American War was a conflict between the United States and Spain that effectively ended Spain’s role as a colonial power in the New World. The United States emerged from the war as a world power with significant territorial claims stretching from the Caribbean to Southeast Asia.
Detailed explanation-2: -How did the Spanish American War make the United States a world power? The US victory in the Spanish American War resulted in the Us gaining possession and/or control of many new territories. These and other territorial gains resulted in the creation of a new far flung empire.
Detailed explanation-3: -As a result of the war, the United States acquired Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines as territories.
Detailed explanation-4: -The major impact was that when the war was over and Cuba had nominal independence from Spain, American businesses could go to Cuba and start extracting its natural resources. The war was short, so it provided little stimulus to the US economy in the form of war production.
Detailed explanation-5: -Mexico ceded nearly all the territory now included in the U.S. states of New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California, Texas, and western Colorado for $15 million and U.S. assumption of its citizens’ claims against Mexico.