HIST 2057 Lecture : Paper 2 Notes
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A. spanish-american war: cuba wants to their natives to be in charge of cuba. They rebel: they don"t want to break away from spain, but they don"t want spain making all of their decisions, this lasts for ten years. They elaborate on the stories, drawing people being murdered. They agree to stop all of the fighting only if the. Cubans themselves ask them to: the cubans do not want to negotiate with. They just want them gone: they know that the us could easily get. Spain out of cuba through military force: as a result, the whole deal gets called off, in april of 1898, mckinley asks for a declaration of war. He wants to liberate cuba and for related purposes. Congress supports the declaration of war: the whole goal of the war is the liberation of cuba under spanish rule, they make it very clear that this desire for a free cuba only impacts cuba.
