5 facts on the philippine-american war?
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1.) This was America's first true colonial war as a world power.\n\n2.) After defeating Spain in Cuba and in the Philippines in 1898, the U.S. purchased the Philippines, Puerto Rico and several other islands from the Spanish.\n\n3.) Following the surrender of the Spanish colonial government in the Philippines to American military forces in August,1898, tensions developed between U.S. and Filipino forces near Manila. The American government decided to keep the Philippines as a colony, thereby denying independence to the Filipino people. Aguinaldo and his army of nearly 80,000 veteran troops realized that their "allies" in the Spanish War would soon become foes.\n\n4.) As early 1899, U.S. and Filipino forces faced off as a tense situation became worse. American forces held the capitol of Manila, while Aguinaldo's army occupied a trench-line surrounding the city.\n\n5.) Independence for the Philippines was delayed until 1946.
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The Spanish-American war was NOT faught 1897-1900. It was fought in 1898-- it lasted 3 months. America won the Phillipines as part of the war treaty. America ruled there until 1946 when the islands were granted independence.
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Jake Montana, you are dead wrong.  The Filipino uprising in at the turn of the 20th century was caused by equally abusive administration of those islands by their new colonizers as compared to their previous owners the Spaniards.  The US Army in the Philippines conducted a campaign of genocide against entire villages in attempts to quell very minor dissent incidents by the local populace. \n\nIn the year 2006, these are acknowledged facts and not the work of fiction as depicted in the 1950's era history books you apparently have been drawing your information from.
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The Philippines, Cuba & Puerto Rico
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamashita's_gold\nhttp://news.inq7.net/top/index.php?index=1&story_id=46660\nhttp://www.howardwfrench.com/archives/2005/06/20/hidden_treasure_in_the_philippines_hunting_for_yamashitas_war_booty/\nhttp://www.usnews.com/usnews/doubleissue/mysteries/yamashita.htm
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how about some cool facts
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Pearl Harbor \nPearl Harbor Raid, 7 December 1941 --\nOverview and Special Image Selection\nThe 7 December 1941 Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was one of the great defining moments in history. A single carefully-planned and well-executed stroke removed the United States Navy's battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire's southward expansion. America, unprepared and now considerably weakened, was abruptly brought into the Second World War as a full combatant.\n\nEighteen months earlier, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had transferred the United States Fleet to Pearl Harbor as a presumed deterrent to Japanese agression. The Japanese military, deeply engaged in the seemingly endless war it had started against China in mid-1937, badly needed oil and other raw materials. Commercial access to these was gradually curtailed as the conquests continued. In July 1941 the Western powers effectively halted trade with Japan. From then on, as the desperate Japanese schemed to seize the oil and mineral-rich East Indies and Southeast Asia, a Pacific war was virtually inevitable.\n\nBy late November 1941, with peace negotiations clearly approaching an end, informed U.S. officials (and they were well-informed, they believed, through an ability to read Japan's diplomatic codes) fully expected a Japanese attack into the Indies, Malaya and probably the Philippines. Completely unanticipated was the prospect that Japan would attack east, as well.\n\nThe U.S. Fleet's Pearl Harbor base was reachable by an aircraft carrier force, and the Japanese Navy secretly sent one across the Pacific with greater aerial striking power than had ever been seen on the World's oceans. Its planes hit just before 8AM on 7 December. Within a short time five of eight battleships at Pearl Harbor were sunk or sinking, with the rest damaged. Several other ships and most Hawaii-based combat planes were also knocked out and over 2400 Americans were dead. Soon after, Japanese planes eliminated much of the American air force in the Philippines, and a Japanese Army was ashore in Malaya.\n\nThese great Japanese successes, achieved without prior diplomatic formalities, shocked and enraged the previously divided American people into a level of purposeful unity hardly seen before or since. For the next five months, until the Battle of the Coral Sea in early May, Japan's far-reaching offensives proceeded untroubled by fruitful opposition. American and Allied morale suffered accordingly. Under normal political circumstances, an accomodation might have been considered.\n\nHowever, the memory of the "sneak attack" on Pearl Harbor fueled a determination to fight on. Once the Battle of Midway in early June 1942 had eliminated much of Japan's striking power, that same memory stoked a relentless war to reverse her conquests and remove her, and her German and Italian allies, as future threats to World peace.\n\nhiroshima and nagasaki:\nSome of the most frequent queries concerning the atomic bombs are those dealing with the selection of the targets and the decision as to when the bombs would be used. \n\nThe approximate date for the first use of the bomb was set in the fall of 1942 after the Army had taken over the direction of and responsibility for the atomic bomb project. At that time, under the scientific assumptions which turned out to be correct, the summer of 1945 was named as the most likely date when sufficient production would have been achieved to make it possible actually to construct and utilize an atomic bomb. It was essential before this time to develop the technique of constructing and detonating the bomb and to make an almost infinite number of scientific and engineering developments and tests. Between the fall of 1942 and June 1945, the estimated probabilities of success had risen from about 60% to above 90%; however, not until July 16, 1945, when the first full-scale test took place in New Mexico, was it conclusively prove
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The battle of Chapultec during the spanish American war
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Type these words into the search engine of your choice.\n\nWorld War Two.\n\nIf you can ask that question on here you can do your own homework. Stop being so lazy.
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1. he attacked russia, and later got half his army fozen in the russian winter (russia was his ally until he attacked it for oil)\n2. allowing the japanese to bomb pearl harbor, which 'awakened the sleeping giant', america\n3. he was freakin insane\n4. not launching a full-scale assault on britain quicker, which would have eventually crumbled britain and prevented the US from havign a beachhead from which to begin d-day\n5. cutting funding from the german equivalent of the manhattan project
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You know there is a high ranking general in the U.S.Army\nthat recently done a critical inspection and overview of\nthe situation at abu grad prison in IRAQ, that made fairly large headlines around the world a couple of years ago.\nit was noted that he was the highest ranking filipino in\nthe U.S. army i forget his name im sure you can find it on the net.
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Am i too late to answer your question in time for your report? \n\nCheck out this Wikipedia page. You're bound to find those which can fit to the topic of your choice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Filipinos
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This site will give u everything youll ever need. Trust me I did a report and used this site for nearly all my information.\nhttp://battle1777.saratoga.org/
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There are statistics on the following page:\n\nhttp://www.antiwar.com/casualties/
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The reason why, and the how of it, is fully discussed here: http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/trask.html\nBreifly, between 1895 and 1898 Cuba and the Philippine Islands revolted against Spain. The Cubans gained independence, but the Filipinos did not. In both instances the intervention of the United States was the culminating event.
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Lapu-lapu killed Magellan. (Lapu-lapu a tribal chief)\nThe cook killed lapu-lapu. (lapu-lapu a type of fish)\n\nThis is a joke from the Philippines, in the Philippines they spell joke like this dyok, but it is pronounced they same.\n\nJose Rizal was one of the leaders of the movement from independence.\n\nAfter the Spanish-American War the Philippines was purchased by the United States for $10,000,000.00. The Philippines was considered a territory of the US until after World War II.\n\nI hope this helps, I have found that the Encyclopedia Britanica has a very nice article on the Philippines.
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wars?  This coming from someone from the country who perpetrated the most infamous sneak attack in modern age?  The country whose warcrimes in Bataan may have been the most horrific in the 20th century?  and this over a call in a baseball game?  And even after that, a country that after attacking US and subsequently losing the war it had started, benefitting by the US rebuilding their country spending millions in the process.\n\nGet a sense of perspective and don't call out an entire country based on an umpire's ruling.  \n\nUmpires aren't evil, though Empires can be at times.   :)