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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