Progressivism

BLOCK THREE: PROGRESSIVISM AND INTERNATIONALISM, 1898-1941


IDENTIFICATIONS:

1. Lend-Lease Bill:
Who-Spanish diplomat Enrique Dupuy de Lome, United States President William McKinley, William Randolph Hearst and his New York Journal
What- The DeLome letter was a letter from the Spanish ambassador Enrique Dupuy de Lome, in Washington, D.C., to Don Jose Canalejas, in Havana, Cuba, that was intercepted by a Cuban agent, leaked to William Randolph Hearst, and published on the front page of the New York Journal. This letter was humiliating to President William McKinley, and ultimately increased the U.S.’s tensions with Spain.
When- written and published in 1898
Where- Havana, Cuba and Washington, D.C.
Significance- The De Lome letter greatly increased the United States tensions with Spain. Then when the U.S.S. Maine was sunk in the Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898, and 260 lives were lost, it was difficult for the United States to believe that the Spanish had nothing to...