who do u think blew up the main in the spanish american war??

Question

do you think it was the spanish?? a mine?? a torpedo?? or it just blew up???? im just interested to see!!

Answer 1

That whole incident was a planned operation with certain objectives

1. test the power of the media
2. make the US a world power
3. eliminate spain's power in the region

the situation:
cubans attempting a revolution to gain independence from spain. public opinion in the US sympathetic with revolutionaries.
spanish general sent to pacify the island. concentration camps. results in 100,000 cuban deaths. public opinion in the US against spain. forward powder magazine exploded on the maine. unknown cause. media blames spain. results in war. US takes several spanish colonies.

this is a classic examble of problem, reaction, solution. by using the problem, reaction, solution, people with control over media and government can get the people to agree to anything.

problem: US ship exploded.
reaction: media places blame, newspapers demand action, then people demand action
solution: government comes up with a solution. usually it is what they wanted to do before the problem occurred, but they couldnt justify it.

interesting slogan:
remember the maine!
carries over from: remember the alamo!
later in history:
remember pearl harbor!
remember 9/11!

the alamo, pearl harbor, and 9/11 are also good examples of problem, reaction, solution, and how the government and media can manipulate or fabricate current events to justify actions that they want to do.

Answer 2

Well, I really don't know. I wasn't there. By the way, it is the "Maine."
There were two commissions, one from Spain, that stated that the cause had been interior, and another from the USA, that said it was from outside, implying that it could had been a mine.
Spain wanted to take the issue to International Arbitrage, but the USA refused and declared war to Spain, ( what a coincidence, in the precise moments in which the Cuban rebels were in the verge of defeating the Spanish forces ).
The Spanish army was defeated by the combination of the Cuban and USA forces and Cuba was occupied by the USA for several years. Finally, when Cuba was granted its Independence, it was with the Platt amendment, that established that the USA could intervene in the Cuban affairs, even militarily, whenever they wanted to. This shameful amendment lasted until the 1930s

Answer 3

It just blew up, Americans never went to war with the spanish.

Answer 4

Correct me if Im wrong, in the philippines, They really this spanish-american war, but the fact is that they just orchestrated such theme, to deceive Filipino counterparts on the hope of liberation from Spanish colonial regime, see philippine history

Answer 5

All I know is America won thank God. We stole their land true but I am proub to be American.

Answer 6

If your talking about the Maine, as in the sub. then experts think it was a technicality. if your talking about the sanish main then i have no idea

Answer 7

they say it was some sort of accident, maybe gas leak or someting?

Answer 8

it was accidential!