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Why did some Americans refer to the Spanish-American war as “Splendid little War”?

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Why did some Americans refer to the Spanish-American war as “Splendid little War”?

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I cant help you with the second part. It was a Splendid War because at the turn of the century war was still very romanticized in the minds of non soldiers. America had not been a war since the civil war and people at home thought it might be fun to fight a little war. Yellow Journalism also played a big part, and the USS Maine made a convenient excuse for the war.