This was known as the Spanish-American war. The United States gained Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippine Islands as territories. Cuba became independent; especially from the sovereignty of Spain, but they were still required to present their foreign policy to the United States.
The US claimed it as a spoils of war after the Spanish American War in 1898.
Guantanamo Bay and the Philippines were both acquired as a result of the Spanish-American War of 1898.
The US acquired Guam in 1898 in the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Spanish-American War.
Cuba didn't gain independence until the communist revolution in 1959. Between 1898 and 1959 it was a puppet state controlled by the US government. The US acquired Cuba after the Spanish-American war in 1898
Puerto Rico officially became a US territory in 1898 when the US acquired it from Spain after the Spanish-American War.
The Philippines.
By the 1898 Treaty of Paris from Spain after the Spanish American War.
No one. The US annexed Hawaii, which had been independent, in 1898.
The US went to war with the Spanish
December of 1898 treaty of Paris US acquired all colonies
The U.S. acquired the subsequent Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in 1898 through victories in the Spanish-American War and on February 23, 1903 by the Cuban-American Treaty.
1898.