need help on the Spanish-American War?

Question

i have to create a article about the opposing view of the Spanish-American War. EX: why the U.S. should NOT have attacked the Spanish during the Spanish-American war. im not going to plagiarize your work i just need some ideas. thanks

Answer 1

~Was it right for Saddam to have invaded Kuwait? Was it right for the Soviets to have invaded Afghanistan? (I'll ignore the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq - don't want to complicate it on you) Was it right for the Japanese to invade Manchuria or attack Pearl Harbor? Was it right for the Nazis and the Soviets to invade Poland? Just exactly what is the difference between the foregoing and the Spanish American War?

Answer 2

Mark Twain and the anti-imperialist league come to mind. People were concerned that the United States was going down the path to imperialism, following in line with old Europe. The United States had a long standing tradition of isolationism, going back to the presidency of Washington, and some saw the Spanish American war as a dangerous departure from what had been a successful foreign policy. The U.S was a republic, and Twain and others like him believed America could not be both a democratic state and an empire, since the colonial systems of that time were rascist and economically exploitative.

Answer 3

Read this, even skim it, and you will get a great understanding I believe of how the US
entered what more appropriately should have been called the Cuban War for Independence, after Cuban revolutionaries had waged decades of war on Spain and were virtually assured victory, for very few other reasons than "Yellow journalism" between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, a desire to make a name for himself by Teddy Roosevelt, and the US's desire to annex Cuba and the Panama Canal zone.

If you even take a quick look at the very first section through to the page on US Intervention, you might even understand why the Cubans of today, under the leadership of the Castros, hate Americans and were willing to side with Russia against us.

The article is called Independence, and is about Cuban Independence. The mere fact we do not know it is more aptly called that rather than the Spanish-American war, I think proves the point....but if you read just parts of this article, even skim it, you will have enough, I believe for your essay:
by Jerry A. Sierra
Intro | Before The War | The War Begins | U.S. Intervention | After The War | Sidebars | References

http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/scaw/scaw2.htm

Answer 4

the "attack" on the american ship ,that exploded and led to the war, have never been actually porven to be a torpedo from a the spanish. so therfore the US should have investigated instead of attacking the spanish