Date of war: (1898)

Population: 74,600,000

Service Members: 306,800

Ratio: 0.4%

Casualties: 387 Dead, 1,662 Wounded

Financial Cost in billions (1990s): $6.3

The Spanish-American War was a 1898 clash between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish pioneer rule in the Americas and brought about U.S. procurement of regions in the western Pacific and Latin America.

Causes and end of war 

The conflict started in the Cuban battle for freedom from Spain, which started in February 1895.

Spain's severely abusive measures to stop the disobedience were graphically depicted for the U.S. public by a few hair-raising papers participating in sensationalist reporting, and American compassion toward the Cuban renegades rose.The developing well known interest for U.S. intercession turned into a resolute melody after the still-unexplained soaking in Havana harbor of the American warship USS Maine, which had been shipped off ensure U.S. residents and property after enemy of Spanish revolting in Havana.

Spain reported a peace negotiation on April 9 and speeded up its new program to give Cuba restricted powers of self-government.

In any case, the U.S. Congress soon a short time later gave goals that proclaimed Cuba's on the right track to freedom, requested the withdrawal of Spain's military from the island, and approved the utilization of power by President William McKinley to get that withdrawal while repudiating any U.S. plan for attaching Cuba.Spain announced conflict on the United States on April 24, trailed by a U.S. presentation of battle on the 25th, which was made retroactive to April 21.The Treaty of Paris finishing the Spanish-American War was endorsed on December 10, 1898. In it, Spain denied all cases to Cuba, surrendered Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States and moved sway over the Philippines to the United States for $20 million.

Philippine agitators who had battled contrary to Spanish guidelines before long turned their weapons against their new occupiers. The Philippine-American War started in February of 1899 and went on until 1902. Multiple times more U.S. troops kicked the bucket stifling rebellions in the Philippines than in overcoming Spain.