into it due to yellow journalism, they wanted to control the seas, and wanted complete control over Cuba."

For 113 days during the summer of 1898, the United States was at war with Spain. Neither the

president of the United States, nor his cabinet, nor the the queen of Spain, nor her ministers wanted the

war wanted the war. It happened eventhough they made their best efforts to prevent it. It happened

because of ambition, miscalculation, and stupidity; and it happened because of kindness, wit, and

resourcefulness. It also happened because some were indifferent to the suffering of the world's wretched

By winning the war the United States proved the the rest of the world and to itself that it could

and would fight against foreign nations. For many years, world power had been concentrated in the

countries in Europe. Nations such as Great Britain, France, Germany, and Spain had the most influence

in global affairs. But a shift in powe

control over Cuba (Bachrach, 13).

continuous interest in such matters. Hearst decided to outdo Pulitzer. He was convinced he could make

officials especially wanted Spanish troops out of Cuba because it lies only ninety miles of the coast of

stimulated by two giants of the American press world. During the entire course of the Cuban rebellion,

weakening. Its economy had declined, and its military ships and weaponary were antiquated and in

r was gradually taking place as the United States matured. The

the Journal more popular than the World, and he used his family's fortune to do it (Bachrach, 35).

Spain was one of the many European countries that had territory in the United States. Spain

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