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Guam was a Spanish Colony and therefore it was a US target. It was a bloodless takeover.
Guam was of use as a coaling station. All coal powered steam Navies needed places to re-coal their fleets.
It was important, strategically, and also allowed the merchant marine to re-coal.
It gave us a life line between Hawaii and the Philippines; which opened up the orient to US interests.
What is taken in war can be kept, what is stolen after the war as an after thought is not allowed.
We also took Cuba and Porto Rico.
After WW1 we would end up with some of the German south sea islands, as coaling stations and strategic points needed to control the choke points of the ocean world after the Mahan theory which is still valid.
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K12 says the answer is Guam.
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Did Cuba Guam and the Philippines become US possessions after the SpanishAmerican War?
Platt Amendment Foraker Act
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When was the blunderbuss invented?
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K12 says the answer is Guam.
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Was Brazil Guam Cuba Puerto Rico and the Philippines controlled by the Americans during the Spanish-American War?
Brazil was not involved in that war.
What did the territory gained in the war add to the US?
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What countries did the Americans and Spanish fight their battles during the Spanish American War?
In Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and a bloodless war in Guam.
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From Spain, during the Spanish-American War 1898; along with Guam and the Philippines.
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