My Annotated Bibliography

history.state.gov. Milestones:1866-1898, The Spanish American War. 1898. Web. 14. Oct. 2013
 The united states after it’s war against spain, took complete control over certain smaller countries. They stopped spains reign over cuba and started to grow a relationship with asia. It was both strategic and also economical, it was good for them so they can have stronger allies and would’t need to worry about being under attack or threaten with the more numbers picking up for them. This war happened for the independence of cuba and the united states wasn’t going to stand there letting spain get control over it. All the united states wanted was to keep a “stable government” and wanted to “maintain order” to keep cuba the way they were. It’s always about power different countries are looking for.



pbs.org. The Spanish-American War in the Philippines. Web. 14. Oct. 2013
   Some people may see it as a “little war” that it didn’t mean much but there was so much to it. There was always something that was going on, the different battles that was going on during the war. Like the war for the Philippines. Yea, it was all about the smaller countries, Guam, Puerto rico etc. President Roosevelt played a big role during the war, but the focus wasn’t on him and he wasn’t the one in charge. A man by the name of MacArthur had total control of the operation and went to war with the philippines. The biggest turn out was that he lost the true cause of the war and was doing things for personal reasons. But right after that he went straight into an investigation of trying to figure out the political scheme behind the philippines. 


Rogers, Gayle. "Restaging The Disaster: Dos Passos And National Literatures After The     Spanish-American War." Journal Of Modern Literature 36.2 (2013): 61-79. Academic     Search Complete. Web. 15 Oct. 2013.
  Rogers’ “Restaging The Disaster: Dos Passos and National Literatures After The Spanish American War” is giving is different in take of it and expressing what he felt was right to write about. He avoided all the things that were needed to deal with war and wrote the literature and what he saw in spain when he went over there. Not everything has to do with war, everybody body needs to see the true meaning and what they are missing out while other countries are fighting it out for their own reasons. And he saw a different point of view of things. He realized that spaniards and people from portugal are adventurous and love doing all different types of things.


The Battle of Manila Bay. 2013. The History Channel Website. 13. Oct. 2013
  The battle foe manila bay was a crucial battle, it was like the peak of it all and so many lives were lost that day. A huge explosions happened that killed like 260 crewmembers that day. The ship was destory and some people say the ship there or it’s just a rumor the united states told just to have a reason to start the war. Whatever people say or even rumors, there have been evidence and pictures of the ship still being there in the bay. Either the war happened with the bay being attacked or not.

Wetzel, Benjamin J. "Onward Christian Soldiers: Lyman Abbott's Justification Of The     Spanish-American War." Journal Of Church & State 54.3 (2012): 406-425. Academic     Search Complete. Web. 15 Oct. 2013.
  In this article, Wetzel looks into cuba and their situation and was really happened to them. Before everything started. They were already in a crisis and had problems coming at them left and right. In the year, 1878 they had only one rebellion but they got eliminated and always have been targets to be control by the other larger countries. In 1895, they tried to over throw the people that were controlling them but their attack wasn’t successful. And that kinda of lead them to almost being controlled by Spain.  He felt that the united states was a tool to the plans of god, as if all of it was step up and bound to happen. And that it was meant to happen. Everything happens for a reason and in different situations cuba was in the middle of everything.