With its victory and subsequent annexation of the Philippines ... McKinley's request for a declaration of war on April 25, 1898; yet the Spanish-American War was the culmination of decades ...

The United States made an initial investment of $20,100,000 in the Islands in its payment to Spain at the close of the Spanish-American War. Since that time the chief expenditures have been for ...

the treaty ended the Spanish-American War and ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the United States. The Treaty of Paris, signed Dec. 10, 1898, also granted Cuba its freedom.

Among the outcomes of the Spanish-American War of 1898 was the transfer of the Philippine ... Aguinaldo and his forces were defeated and the Philippines became the strategic protectorate of ...

Starting with the Spanish-American War in 1898. The Army's role in the Pacific ... as seen in battles on Guadalcanal, the Philippines, and Okinawa, and numerous other locations throughout the ...