HIST 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Industrial Revolution, Underconsumption
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Authored the influence of sea power, advocated building up the naval force and establishing permanent foreign bases to secure a foothold in foreign markets. Keywords: cuba, alfred thayer mahan, philippines, theodore roosevelt, u. s. s. Assistant secretary of the navy during the start of the spanish american war. Heavily influenced president mckinley to expand the navy. The pivotal reason for the outbreak of the spanish american war in 1898. First thought to have been done by spanish power, but discovered that it was due to a submerged. The former cause of explosion still stuck in the public mind and used for a motive of war. America used independence from spain for cuba and the. Philippines to increase support for a spanish american war: a war-mongering press, using war to sell newspapers, created a domestic outcry for war against spain after the bombing of the u. s. s.
