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America's involvement in the Spanish American was to keep Cuba safe from Spain. The U.S. put a ship, the USS Maine, on the waters near Cuba to keep the peace. The USS Marine ended up exploding and the Yellow Journalism caught onto the story and spun it way out of sorts to make it look like Spain was the one who blew up the ship. We then got into a Spanish-American war and won, and went and gained four new territories from The Treaty of Paris. The territories were Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Island nations of the Philippines.

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This political cartoon is representing how the Spanish have hurt the Americans (literally). The purpose of this image is to intently show Americans that the Spanish are savages and they're willing to kill Americans, just so

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Location: Went from the North Sea and though Belgium and France  (Western Europe)

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Location: Went from the North Sea and though Belgium and France  (Western Europe)

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First we acquired the Philippines from the Treaty of Paris, and that was by winning the Spanish-American War. The Philippines didn’t want anyone to have control over them, so they started a revolution with America that lasted 3 years. The Philippines ended up losing in the war, so the U.S. kept the Philippines for 45 years and then finally gave them their independence after WWII.

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The Panama Canal was such a hot commodity because of all the trading opportunities it had with other countries, geographically wise. Therefore, America spoke with the Columbians and wanted to make a route where the French bailed out (Panama Canal). The Columbians then said America would have to pay money for it and drastically increased the price so America would get ripped off. President Rosevelt got mad and went to Panama and asked them if they would like to be free from Columbia, and of course they said yes. Then the U.S. parked all their warships in front of Panama, but Columbians didn’t want to start a war, so they let the ships remain there and then the people of Panama all loved America. America had access to Panama and used the Panama canal for almost 100 years until they finally had to give the land back.

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America remained neutral when the war first broke out because they didn’t want to get their involved. America’s economy was booming during that period of time where they remained neutral. Later on, a ship called the Lusitania, that carried many Americans, was sunk. This caused the U.S. to get mad, so we talked to Germany and they promised that they’d never do it again. Not much later, the Germans were back to their unrestricted submarine warfare and ended up sinking 3 other american ships, killing and injuring more americans. Clearly Germany wasn’t able to hold up their end of the bargain, so the U.S. got mad and declared war.

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The conditions in the trenches were horrible. It was wet inside and the trenches weren’t initially made for a long term purpose because nobody thought they were going to be there for that long. There were rats running around eating the decomposing bodies, but not only that, they would also carry around lice and spread it to the people.Many of the soldiers were becoming mentally unstable, rightfully so. They didn’t have electricity, food, super clean water, showers… and the way they had to live was absolutely inhumane.

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The Paris Peace Conference was an international meeting convened in January 1919 at Versailles just outside Paris. Great Britain, France, and Italy fought together during WWl  as Allied Powers. The United States, entered the war in April 1917 as an Associated Power, and while it fought on the side of the Allies, it was not bound to honor pre-existing agreements between the Allied powers. The conference came up with a document called the Treaty of Versailles which basically made Germany take all the blame for the war, Germany had to pay major war reparation, Germany had to give up a lot of land and limit their military, which sent Germany into a recession.

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This represents America trying to take the Philippines, but the Filipinos just want to be free and in control of themselves, and that's why the Filipino is running away from Uncle Sam in the picture.

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This is showing that the United States basically bullied their way in to getting the Panama Canal, because they didn't really care about Columbia. The United States was selfish and used their money and persuasion with the Panamanians to gain access to the canal.

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America was neutral at the beginning of the war. But this cartoon is showing how Americans also really didn't want to go to war either. But in the end they did because innocent Americans kept dying.

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This is showing soldiers in the trenches. It's supposed to represent that the trenches were very unsafe. By asking where the trench is, it's implying that the walls of the trenches were lower than expected, which makes them more susceptible to enemy fire. And it's also raining and the trenches are all wet and muddy and it's just unsanitary and unsafe to be there.

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This cartoon is showing when the Allied Powers decided to blame Germany for everything that happened in the war. And this is showing Germany trying to argue back that it wasn't all Germany's fault.

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I think this was a good thing, because this did start America's road to imperialism globally because from winning this, they gained Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, Island nations of Philippines. So I drew Uncle Sam on top of the globe :)

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I think this war was unnecessary if America would've just gave them their independence like promised. The Filipinos thought they were going to gain independence much earlier than they actually did. America was selfish and spun tales to get their way, but they were never intending on letting go of the Philippines until the Filipinos started fighting back. I chose to draw Uncle Sam sitting on a throne while the Filipinos were trying to "dethrone" him.

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Even though this caused a lot of disputes, it helped advance the world through trading. Therefore, I drew a boat with goods on it, going to drop them off.

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I drew a sinking boat because these events were ultimately what led up to America joining WWl. It was a kind of a negative because the U.S. had to get involved in war and the citizens didn't want to be involved either, especially because their economy was booming before hand.

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I drew the disgusting trenches. These were a huge negative because the U.S. made their trenches not preparing to be there for a long time. So the trenches got gross real fast. Dead bodies in them, wet mud, no showers, no food, cold... it just would've been a lot better if the U.S. was more prepared.

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I think this was a negative point in history because all it did was make Germany mad. And then it put Germany at a new economic low forcing the people to grasp onto any sliver of hope they can, which is why they stared following Hitler, and that launched WWll. So, I drew an angry german.