... supported making peace with Spain, to take action. Finally, McKinley bowed to public pressure and submitted a declaration of war against Cuba to the Congress on April 11th, 1898 with the intention of "liberating" Cuba and making the island independent. In what would be commonly known as the "splendid little war", the United States was able to demonstrate its formidable military and technological might by quickly and effortlessly destroying ... program is just. I have not violated my faith in democratic liberties, in the independence of Guatemala and in all the good which is the future o...

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