February 15, 1898 (25) Reform Movement of the first month, the U.S. warships sent to Cuba protecting the overseas Maine exploded in Havana harbor. In In 1898, the outbreak of the Spanish-American War


Spanish-American War in 1898, the war waged by the United States to seize Spanish possessions of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines and powers to redivide the colonial first imperialist war. (����d��y����h�� $ �Ө�ry.c��m) Cuba and the Philippine Islands not only an important economic value, is a strategic base for U.S. expansion to South America and Asia, respectively. The emerging U.S. has strong economic and military potential, we have built a powerful navy. Spain has long been fading, to be isolated in the international arena. Especially the two people's armed struggle against the Spanish colonial rule in Cuba and the Philippines, clamped a large number of Spanish troops. Spanish Army of the brutal repression of the Cuban insurgents angered the American people, and endanger the economic interests of the American capitalists in the ground. February 15, 1898, the United States sent to Cuba protecting the overseas warship Maine exploded in Havana harbor, then this event as an excuse to take military action against Spain on April 25.