The Philippines.
It wasn't. It was granted Independence from Spain under the 1898 Treaty of Paris.
The U.S. acquired the subsequent Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in 1898 through victories in the Spanish-American War and on February 23, 1903 by the Cuban-American Treaty.
Spain A+ No country granted independence to the Philippines in 1898 although at least one group there declared them independent. Emilio Aguinaldo, a Filipino general, politician, and independence leader, declared Philippine independence from Spain in Kawit, Cavite on June 12, 1898 and the First Philippine Republic was established the following year. In the meantime the islands were ceded by Spain to the United States for US$20 million in the 1898 Treaty of Paris as a result of the Spanish-American War. The United States never recognized the First Philippine Republic and the Philippine-American War broke out. It ended with American control over the islands which were then administered as an insular area, so the Philippines passed from Spanish Colony to US posession without anyone granting them independence in between. In 1935, the Philippines was granted Commonwealth status. There were plans in the works to grant independence over the next 10 years, but they were disrupted when the Japanese Empire invaded during World War II. The US finally granted independence on July 4, 1946 after the end of the war.
Spain transferred the territories it held as colonies in the New World as a result of the 1898 Treaty of Paris to the United States. The US still holds Guam and Puerto Rico. Cuba was granted independence and the US and the Philippines began a long and difficult war. The Philippines were granted independence after WW2. The US was recognized as a World Power after the war.
No. It was annexed (ie taken) by the US in 1898 and granted statehood in 1959. American businessmen stole it, created the Republic of Hawaii, and then offered it to the US as a Territory.
It wasn't. It was granted Independence from Spain under the 1898 Treaty of Paris.
Cuba was granted independence from Spain in the year 1898.
From Spain in 1898.
The Treaty of Paris, which brought an end to the Spanish-American War, granted independence to Cuba. The treaty was signed in 1898.
The U.S. acquired the subsequent Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in 1898 through victories in the Spanish-American War and on February 23, 1903 by the Cuban-American Treaty.
1898.
Cuba didn't gain independence until the communist revolution in 1959. Between 1898 and 1959 it was a puppet state controlled by the US government. The US acquired Cuba after the Spanish-American war in 1898
Yukon became a territory on June 13, 1898.
It ended in a US victory with Spain losing it's New World Empire and both of it's Naval Fleets. Cuba was granted independence. Guam and Puerto Rico are both US Territories and the Philippines was granted independence after WW2. A Peace Treaty called the 1898 Treaty of Paris was signed on 10 December 1898.
Puerto Rico officially became a US territory in 1898 when the US acquired it from Spain after the Spanish-American War.
Cubas independence was granted after the Spánish defeate in the Spanish American War. After the Maine , an American sbattlehip, exploded president William McKinley declared war on Spain in 1898 . The war was fought for a few months and in 1901 Cuba gained its independence . Fidel Castro was a bad leader ho
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