The Philippines which has since gained independence, but Guam and Puerto Rico are still US Territories.
The Philippines and Guam
Cuba gained Independence. Guam and Puerto Rico became US Territories. The Philippines and the US got locked into the Philippine American War.
3 things that the US gained were the territories: Guam, Puerto Rico, and the BOUGHT the Philippines from the Spanish for 20 million.
US gained Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
The Philippines which has since gained independence, but Guam and Puerto Rico are still US Territories.
The Philippines and Guam
Cuba gained Independence. Guam and Puerto Rico became US Territories. The Philippines and the US got locked into the Philippine American War.
The Philippines is nearest to the US territories of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean. These territories are located east of the Philippines.
3 things that the US gained were the territories: Guam, Puerto Rico, and the BOUGHT the Philippines from the Spanish for 20 million.
Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines were taken as US territories during the Spanish American war.
US gained Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
After losing the Spanish-American War in 1898, Spain had to give up Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Cuba to the US, leaving Spain with only the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, and continental Spain to its name.
Cuba and the Philippines are both former US Territories gained in the Philippine American War. The other two were Guam and Puerto Rico are still US Territories.
In winning the Spanish-American war, in 1898, America gained temporary control of Cuba and indefinite colonial authority of Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines from the Spanish. In 1946 the Philippines gained independence from the U.S, but Guam and Puerto Rico are still today U.S territories. They also got a neverending headache because of Cuba.
No countries were, only Spanish territories. They were Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. Cuba and the Philippines are now countries today as they got their independence from the US, however, Puerto Rico and Guam are still American territories.
The US gained possession of Guam, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Phillipines. Note that although the US no longer owns Cuba, it does still control Guantanamo Bay, and the Philippines was granted Independence after WW2.