Never before had the United States attempted war on such a global stage.
Here s What You Need to Know: Like many conventional state-on-state conflicts, the Spanish-American War upset the old order and set the stage for a new one.
The end of the Second World War is often considered the defining moment when the United States became a global power. In fact, it was another war forty years earlier, a war that ended with America having an empire of its own stretching thousands of miles beyond its continental borders. The Spanish-American War, which lasted five months, catapulted the United States from provincial to global power.
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