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The war between the United States and Spain was caused by unsettling tension between the two countries; Spain, at that time, one of the world's great powers, maintained colonies including Cuba, which lay only ninety miles from U.S. soil. Last ....

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... of the Cuban revolt of 1868-1878, a long and exhausting conflict called the "Ten-Years War" that essentially ended in a draw. In 1895 a depression in Cuba made conditions worse, and revolution again broke out threatening to go on indefinitely as the rebels would be strong enough win, nor would the Spanish forces be powerful enough to defeat them. American newspapers, especially the yellow press of rival publishers, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, printed outlandish stories of the Spanish oppression in Cuba. They included wildly exaggerated accounts that a quarter of the Cuban population had been killed at the hands of their S ...