The Spanish-American War (Video I of 8)http://youtu.be/urtm4GpjFu4
Teddy Roosevelt charging up the San Juan Heights, the Rough Riders and the sinking of the battleship, the U.S.S. Maine—these are what people commonly know about the United States’ war with Spain in 1898. What they may not remember is that this was the war that steered the United States to center stage as a world power. Victorious over Spain in Cuba and the Philippines, the United States, a nation founded in opposition to imperialism, grappled with its new role as an imperial power. More recent events in Vietnam, Somalia, and Yugoslavia bear striking parallels to those of 1898. Even in its own time, the war with Spain was understood as a turning point in American history.
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@pjboom Cuba was a province of Spain, not a colony. Cubans were considered spaniards, not Cubans. Losing Cuba was like losing a part of Spain. We are your closest blood relatives in the Americas, and to insult a Cuban is to insult yourself.
ivonotei 1 week ago
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I disagree. Those born in the island where called “Criollos” and did not have the same rights, nor where they Spanish citizens. They where basically living in limbo, discriminated against in their own land and treated like trash. The Spanish basically dumped people in the island and treated them like animals; unless you where born in Spain, of course. Fuck Spain! They did practically nothing for the island. It was the Americans who gave the island it’s modernity from 1902 to 1958.
gusanomarielito in reply to ivonotei 1 week ago
Sources: CrucibleofEmpire/YouTube/TheCubanHistory.com
CrucibleofEmpire/The Cuban History/ Arnoldo Varona, Editor