Yes, the US may have been fighting for a noble cause but the treatment of the Filipinos during the war was similar if not the same, as the Spain's treatment of the Cubans. When the US eventually won the war, they did gain the freedom of the Cuban people, but this also came with Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippine Islands, which was paid for, in the Treaty of Paris (Doc B). Not only did the US acquire control of these countries, they also watched over the Cubans during the construction of their constitution, and the US ended up owning a naval base called Guantanamo Bay that was situat...

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The Cold War has brought around all the new kinds of weapons, propaganda and a permanent threat of use of the weapons of mass distraction, several so called, "proxy wars" took place, where the rivalry between capitalists and communists resulted in the real fights on the other states territories, when the US and the Soviet Union supported different sides in the Civil Wars, for example Berlin Crises, Korean War, Cuban missile crises, Vietnam and Afghanistan wars. ... However, I should mention that the US government could not simply accept the fact that a country could exist with economic and p...

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