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EXPLOSION OF THE USS MAINE AND THE DE LOME LETTER!!!

The effect of the De Lome Letter was written by THE Spanish Ambassador to the United States, Eurique Dupuy de Lome, it was criticized by the American President WILLIAM MCKINLEY by calling him weak and concerned only was gaining the favor of the crowd. The Maine explodes was a massive explosion of an unknown origin that sinks the battleship of the USS Maine in Cuba’s Havana harbor, KILLING 260 of the fewer than 400 American crew members aboard. One of the FIRST American battleships, the Maine weighed more than 6,000 tons and was built at a cost of more than $2 MILLION. The OFFICIAL investigation of the USS Maine explosion may have taken weeks or even months to complete, but however it has already been clear that Spain is the culprit, and has made a negative imprint on society.

On February 15, 1898, the event that still remains a mystery, the Maine had suddenly exploded as it was sailing around Havana harbor. It was a tragedy for the United States, as 260 out of 350 American sailors and officers died in the explosion. The destruction of the Maine created an uproar in America, which was influenced by HEARST, it immediately held Spain responsible. The Spanish investigation team claimed that the explosion was only an accident caused by some internal problem on the ship, the American investigation said the explosion MUST have been caused by a SPANISH MINE in the harbor. JAMES WITHERMAN, an American stationed in Cuba says “When I saw the explosion I knew it was the work of the Spanish, I had read about the De Lome Letters, and the Spanish’s grudge against the United States, and there was no doubt that the Spanish were behind this.”

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Great White Fleet is a popular United States Navy Battle  fleet that completed a journey around the globe.

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Panama Canal is a waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The canal was made to help with trading goods.

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President Theodore Roosevelt issued the corollary to keep other powers out and ensure financial solvency. It also justified American intervention throughout the Western Hemisphere

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Big Stick Diplomacy:
International negotiations backed by the threat of force. This allowed Theodore Roosevelt to symbolically project American power without actually having to use force.

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Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States naval officer and historian. He published the Influence of Sea Power Upon History.

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The particular letter I'm talking about is a son writing to his parents. He's also talking about the bullets and cannonballs come down like snow. Some died and didn't have a proper burial they died and suffered, why'll they laid in the trenches. There is a place called no man's land is where the open space between two sets of opposing trenches became known as No Man's Land. It shows how powerful and strong these men were . The soldiers went through the trenches and surviving the trenches they lived with trench foot . Trench foot is when a painful foot condition caused by wet socks and they couldn't change they're socks so people got there feet amputated and they would be missing toes .

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A soldier writes of the horrors he experienced after the arrival in a formerly French trench. There was no time to bury dead bodies of the previous occupants, so the soldiers would have corpses for company.

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This just shows a man in the trenches and the water up that high to him. Them having to live in them for as long as training and war does .

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no mans land was the ground between two opposing trenches it was land used to get closer to the opponent. But crossing no mans land during battle was like committing suicide. No man's land was nothing but ground and dead bodies.