In the Spanish-American War‚ the United States showed to the world that they were no longer the isolating‚ inward-looking nation it was for the past years‚ but now an important figure on the international stage. Before American involvement and the start of the war‚ tensions were already apparent in the Caribbean Sea‚ due to existing conflicts between Cuba and Spain. Years before the war would begin‚ there were numerous violent attempts by Cubans in the effort for independence and greater autonomy
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Jocelyn Bedard The Spanish Inquisition was a time period that lasted roughly 700 years. When King Ferdinand used many torture tactics to establish religious unity. There were multiple gruesome tactics used to keep the citizens in the Catholic Church. It all started when a monk Martin Luther let out the many corruptions in the Catholic system. Following that many people started following Martin Luther. To stop the movement King Ferdinand the Second of Aragon and‚ Queen Isabella the First of Castile
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Spanish and Hispanic Culture Trivia 1. The name Mexico comes from the Aztecs; it was related to the Aztec Mexica tribe. 2. The president of Mexico is Enrique Peña Nieto 3. The river that borders Texas and Mexico is the Rio Grande. 4. Mexico’s Independence Day is September 16. 5. Pancho Villa is made fun of in the song La Cucaracha 6. The official languages that are spoken in Spain are Galician‚ Catalan‚ and Basque. 7. The Mediterranean Sea is the body of water that borders Spain to the southeast
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was letting English pirates attack Spanish ships as long as she got a percentage of the spoils. She also offered to help Protestants who rebelled against Spanish rule in the Spanish Netherlands. Elizabeth ordered the execution of her cousin Mary Queen of Scots‚ which convinced King Phillip to attack England. Queen Elizabeth knew that King Phillip had a big fleet of ships and lots of essential supplies. She sent the Royal Navy to do a surprise attack on the Spanish ships at the harbor in Cadiz. The
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The simple explanation as to the cause of the Spanish-American war is that it was due to the way the Spanish were treating the Cuban people. But things are rarely that simple and the war between Spain and America is no exception. Leading up to the war American’s began to feel that we did not have enough room to grow and American journalists fed the desire for foreign adventure by romanticizing it‚ much the way the frontier had been romanticized. Huge Naval ships were built and Darwinism convinced
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The period after the Spanish-American War marked a time when United States continued to seek growth on the world stage. New global markets for U.S. products began to appear and international commerce and trade continued to expand. European countries even felt threatened by U.S. technology and its mass production capabilities. President Woodrow Wilson held the belief that economics and politics were directly related and promoted this as foreign policy. The United States began using military
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In 1521‚ the world witnessed the collapse of the illustrious Aztec Empire at the hands of Spanish conquistadors. Spain was looking to colonize as well as to expand and exert its dominance over the newly discovered Western world. Led by Hern¨¢n Cort¨¨s‚ the conquistadors were carrying a message from Spain of expanding‚ conquering and capitalizing on an already developed country. Mesmerized by the Spanish presence; the Aztecs were initially oblivious to the colonization efforts. This enabled Spain
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The Spanish Civil War Spanish civil war began on 17 July 1936 and ended on 1 April 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists to wrest the dominated power. When progressive Popular Front government was elected in February 1936‚ Nationalists gathered to plan resistance and they were led by Francisco. The rebel force predicted that the war would end with a victory quickly and take the entire country. However‚ that was their miscalculation; the war spent much time than their expectation‚ and
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no choice but to go to war to stop Philip * The War of the Spanish Succession (1702 – 1713) * France and Spain vs. England and Portugal * Portugal gets a guarantee that they wont be taken over by Spain * England wins * Treaty of Utrecht (1713) * (Philip will still be king of France) * No union of Spain and France * Gibraltar and Minorca - Straits of Gibraltar (Spanish island) granted to Great Britain * Great access to
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Advantages the Spanish had over the Incas The Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire is one of the most important campaigns in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. This operation‚ although carried out by Spanish conquistadors and their native allies‚ took decades of fighting to subdue‚ one of the mightiest empires in the Americas. One may ask‚ if the Incas were so powerful‚ how could they possibly have fallen to the authority of the Spaniards? Did they not have a strong enough army? Were there
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