Saturday, October 18, 2014

Compare and contrast the Spanish-American War and WWI.

In order to get a better answer, it might be helpful to
ask a more focused question.  There are many aspects of these wars that could be
compared and contrasted.  Here are a few points that you could
make:


  • The Spanish-American War was a tiny war
    that lasted a short time.  WWI was a huge war that lasted a long time.

  • The Spanish-American War was caused largely by a desire
    in the US for empire and a desire to prove the "masculinity" of the US in war.  People
    like Theodore Roosevelt thought that the US needed to fight a war to toughen its people
    and to prove that they were strong.  WWI was caused in part by somewhat different
    factors.  It was caused by militarism, nationalism, and competition for power between
    various European countries.  One aspect of this competition for power did involve
    imperialism, so that aspect of the causes of WWI is similar to a cause of the
    Spanish-American War.

Outside of the causes,
these two wars are rather different because of the huge differences in how big they
were.

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