William McKinley
President McKinley.
After the sinking of the Maine Americans favored war with Spain. President McKinley had tried to avoid the war for many months but he had to go with public opinion after the sinking of the Maine.
Some contend that it made President McKinley angry enough to go to War. That is quite unlikely since the Spanish Minister had already submitted his resignation.
The Yellow Press, particularly in the large number of newspapers owned and run by William Randolph Hearst, swayed public opinion and caused such political pressure that President McKinley was almost forced to go to war with Spain.
They were forced to due to conscription
The Unites States was heavily influenced by Yellow Journalism, the newspapers in this category manipulated people's minds into thinking that we should go to war with Spain by exposing Spanish Atrocities.
England was the nation with which Spain went to war.
It was a letter by Don Enrique Duprey de Lome, the Spanish Ambassador, for the US to the Spainsh foreign minister of Spain. Intercepted by Cuban revolutionaries and given to Hearst newspapers it helped spark the war with Spain over Cuba. McKinley criticized the letter as weak and for gaining favor. It was published Feb. 9, 1898 and McKinley asked Congress to declare war two months later on April 11, 1898. He had public support to go to war because of the letter.
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Men (that are not military) were forced to go to war only when conscription was ruled in parliament.
The mysterious sinking of the USS Maine was the Casus belli.