The Spanish-American War

It has been a ‘splendid little war’ wrote John Hay to Theodore Roosevelt after the fall of Santiago. Little, the Spanish-American War was; it was over in barely four months. Splendid? Maybe for those at home, reading the headline about its lucky victories. But for those men who fought in it, it was a bloody, dirty and heroic war as any in history. Zinn, Johnson, and Tindall & Shi, mostly wrote similar information about the war, …

…Vietnam was a relatively small conflict in south Asia. The reason that the United States became involved was because of its dedication to the containment of Communism. It was the longest conflict in American history and had a vast political importance for many American politicians. It was a war that the nation could not give up, but an issue that it did not want to pursue. This conflict of interests made the war a failure.