spanish american war

The Spanish-American War of 1898 marked a turning point in American history. Within a few years of the war's end, the United States established itself as a world power, exercising control or influence over islands in the Caribbean Sea, the mid-Pacific Ocean and close to the Asian mainland. The conflict has sometimes been called "The Newspaper War," largely because the influence of a sensationalist press, "Yellow Journalism", supposedly brought on the fighting. Key to a sense of rage propagated by the media was the events of February 1898, which culminated with the de...