Explanation:
The Spanish-American War was a military conflict that confronted Spain and the United States in 1898, the result of the American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. At the end of the brief conflict, Spain was defeated and its main results were the loss of the island of Cuba (which was proclaimed an independent republic, but was under the tutelage of the United States), as well as Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guam. that became colonial dependencies of the United States. In the Philippines, the American occupation degenerated into the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902. The rest of the Spanish possessions in the Pacific were sold to the German Empire through the Spanish-German treaty of February 12, 1899, by which Spain ceded to the German Empire its last archipelagos - the Marianas (except Guam), the Palau and the Carolinas. in exchange for 25 million pesetas (17 million marks), since they were indefensible by Spain.
