Spanish-American War was the first entry onto the world arena of American imperialism, which got an important island bases spanning the global participation (Herring, ch.8). For Spain, events in 1898 were a turning point, unique in its significance, because they pushed hardest crisis processes that shaped the development of the country in the XX century.
Causes of a military conflict between the United States and Spain are fairly obvious. One has only to reproduce the general course of events: The United States, having exhausted the possibility of expansion in the territories under their control, switched to the development of
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