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Most american do not know about this war it was too long ago for them to be interested

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The description of events and their impact on american and spanish international position were effectively explained

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Very good overview of the spanish american war especially for the many not properly taught in our rapidly deteriorating public schools system that is more concerned with progressive thought and political correctness than actually teaching american history

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It was not a splendid little war but costly for all partys invovled

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This book clearly and concisely sums up this 10week war and its consequences without making readers get bogged down in historical and pompous verbiage

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The war therefore acted to heal the american psyche which up to this point been defined as the social economic and political division of the north and south by redefining the national identity and helping to repair the social divisions that the long and bloody civil war had created

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Following the war the us emerged a global economic and military force to be recond with and since that time the us has played a significant role in conflicts around the world by supporting other countries politically andor economically by intervention in others conflicts or by mediating peace negotiations

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Before the war expansionism was something the majority of the american public was against