HIST206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Guerrilla Warfare, Teller Amendment, Asthma
2 Nov 2018
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U. s. power and what they need to do with it. Ultimately during mckinley"s presidency (1896) the us found itself in a position of having international influence. (to take or not) Cuba was a colony of spain (spanish empire had been a great european empire) colonized vast pieces of land. But during the 19th century it had lost all of those territories. Only retained some of the colonies, one of which was cuba. Ultimately, american newspaper workers found this to be a story that sold papers. Cuban resistance fighters were becoming more effective, spain sent over a new governor, He had a plan to stop guerilla warfare: create villages, camps, re-concentration camps, to concentrate the cuban people at night. Essentially, these people were not free at nighttime. They pulled them together at night by armed guards. Over 200,000 cubans died in these camps, not because they were killed, but because of poor sanitation, malnutrition. Caught the attention of hearst and pulitzer.
