During his presidency, William McKinley oversaw a major shift in American foreign policy. The Spanish-American War brought victory but also new territories, including the Philippines. This expansion ...

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In January 1898 the US government had sent the USS Maine to protect American interests. On the evening of February 15 1898 the Maine sank in the harbour at Havana when her forward gunpowder magazines ...