They occupied the Philippines
They occupied the Philippines
After the Spanish-American War, the Philippines became a possession of the United States of America.
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Guam was a Spanish colony from 1565 until 1898 and was governed from the Philippines by the Spanish but was not a part of the Philippine Islands, it is in fact the largest of the Mariana Islands. Following the Spanish-American war the United States took control of Guam as part of the Treaty of Paris. Guam is today a territory of the United States with a locally elected governor.
After the Spanish-American War, the 1898 Treaty of Paris gave America absolute control of the Philippine Islands from Spain. The American finally wom the American-Philippine war in 1913 asserting American dominance over the islands. In 1917, since the islands were a direct dependency and territory of the United States, they went to war with American against the central powers. They spent a year mobilizing a new Philippine National Guard which was trained and sent to France with American Expeditionary Forces.
They occupied the Philippines
Spain lost Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippine Islands to the United States as a result of the Spanish American War.
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.
United States of America earned the following : Puerto Rico Guam Philippines
The Phillippine War was so unpopular with the United States because it was a war that was against the United States. The war was between the years of 1899 - 1902.
They occupied the Philippines
The Spanish colonial period was approximately 333 years, beginning with a settlement at Cebu in 1565, and ending with the cession of the islands to the United States in 1898, following the Spanish-American War.