During the years of the war the Germans developed a new weapon known as the U-boat. The U-boat was a submarine equipped with torpedoes. In 1915, the Germans announced that they would weaken a

American forces were propelled into a New Manifest Destiny. Many believed that the United States would gain much needed land and power by beginning to move westerly. This would also help in taking a lot of power away from other countries, such as Spain.

The Spanish American War began in 1898 with the Wilson Gorman Tariff Act of 1894. The American Tariff put restrictions on sugar imports to the United States which severely hurt the economy of Cuba due to the heavy reliance on the sugar. The people of Cuba revolted against the Spanish Colonial Regime and were later countered by the Spanish and put into concentration camps. American citizens, mostly businessmen which were in Cuba at the time were also set to the concentration camps which made the United States furious. The United States later sent a ship known as the USS Maine to Cuba to rescue any United States citizens caught up on the island. On February 15, 1898 the USS Maine was mysteriously blown up and the United Sta

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