<P> The Venezuelan crisis of 1895 occurred over Venezuela's longstanding dispute with the United Kingdom about the territory of Essequibo and Guayana Esequiba, which Britain claimed as part of British Guiana and Venezuela saw as Venezuelan territory . As the dispute became a crisis, the key issue became Britain's refusal to include the territory east of the "Schomburgk Line", in the proposed international arbitration, which a surveyor had drawn half a century earlier as a boundary between Venezuela and the former Dutch territory of British Guiana . By December 17, 1895, President Grover Cleveland delivered an address to the United States Congress reaffirming the Monroe Doctrine and its relevance to the dispute . The crisis ultimately saw the Britain Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, accept the United States' intervention to force arbitration of the entire disputed territory and tacitly accept the United States' right to intervene under the Monroe Doctrine . A tribunal convened in Paris in 1898 to decide the matter, and in 1899, awarded the bulk of the disputed territory to British Guiana . For the first time, the Anglo - Venezuelan boundary dispute asserted for the first time a more outward - looking American foreign policy, particularly in the Americas, marking the United States as a world power . This was the earliest example of modern interventionism under the Monroe Doctrine, in which the USA exercised its claimed prerogatives in the Americas . </P> <P> The Spanish--American War was a conflict fought between Spain and the United States in 1898 . Hostilities began in the aftermath of sinking of the USS Maine in Havana harbor, leading to American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence . The sinking of the USS Maine occurred on February 15, resulting in the deaths of 266 people and causing the United States to blame Spain, since the ship had been sent to Havana in order to protect a community of U.S. citizens there . American acquisition of Spain's Pacific possessions led to its involvement in the Philippine Revolution and ultimately in the Philippine--American War . </P> <P> Revolts against Spanish rule had been occurring for some years in Cuba as is demonstrated by the Virginius Affair in 1873 . In the late 1890s, journalists Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst which used yellow journalism, anti-Spanish propaganda, to agitate U.S. public opinion And encourage war . However, the Hearst and Pulitzer papers circulated among the working class in New York City and did not reach a national audience . </P> <P> After the mysterious sinking of the US Navy battleship Maine in Havana harbor, political pressures from the Democratic Party pushed the administration of Republican President William McKinley into a war he had wished to avoid . Spain promised time and again that it would reform, but never delivered . The United States sent an ultimatum to Spain demanding it surrender control of Cuba . First Madrid, then Washington, formally declared war . </P>

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