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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.

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