What caused the Spanish-American War in 1898?
Cuban insurgents revolted against Spanish rule, fighting a long, bitter guerrilla war. The United States was drawn into the fighting on the Cuban side after the mysterious explosion of the battleship “Maine” in Havana harbor. The last overseas colonies of Spain were captured by American troops in less than six months; Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean, and Guam and the Philippine islands in the Pacific.
