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Nov 5, 2017 · November 05, 2017. Credit: Handy, Levin C. via Wikimedia Commons. Why did the United States decide to seize the Philippines while waging a war against Spain over the fate of Cuba? Support for the...
The United States had promised the Philippines independence in 1934, on a timetable to end in 1946, and kept that promise. Beginning in 1935, the Philippines had Commonwealth status as a stopgap.
- The US were dragged into WWII for many reasons - and I'm not so sure that the Japanese planned on invading US territories until after the US had al...
- The Philippines had already been scheduled to become fully independent on July 4th, 1945. But this was interrupted by WW2. As a result of which, in...
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Nov 24, 1992 · By William Branigin. November 24, 1992 at 12:00 a.m. EST. MANILA, NOV. 24 (TUESDAY) -- The United States today formally handed over to the Philippines its last military base in Southeast Asia,...
Jun 16, 2023 · June 16, 2023. On September 16, 1991, Senator Wigberto Tañada gave a soaring speech on the floor of the Philippine senate. The country’s president, Corazon Aquino, was proposing to sign a new...
Digital History ID 1257. Author: William McKinley. Date:1900. Annotation: President William McKinley was deeply ambivalent about war against Spain. The last president to have served in the Civil War said he had seen too much carnage at battles like Antietam to be enthusiastic about war with Spain. "I've been through one war.
Nov 12, 2013 · US interest in the Philippines goes back to the late 19th century, the classic age of great power politics. US naval strategiests were keen to project US naval power into the Atlantic and Pacific to protect the US mainland from invasion and protect US commerce, and also just to plant the flag when empires were planting flags all over the world.
Nov 25, 2017 · Reconstructing the U.S. Decision to Take the Philippines, 1898-99. Philip Zelikow. A closer examination of what led President William McKinley to take the Philippines reveals a series of deliberate and thoughtful choices that have often been overlooked or ignored.
