Yet Cuba remained one of Spain's two colonies in the New World. How did the Spanish-American War affect US power in Asia? The Cavite mutiny (Spanish: El Mótin de Cavite) of 1872 was an uprising of Filipino military personnel of Fort San Felipe, the Spanish arsenal in Cavite,: 107 Philippine Islands (then also known as part of the Spanish East Indies) on 20 January 1872.Around 200 locally recruited colonial troops and laborers rose up in the belief that it would elevate to a national uprising. The government of the Second Republic, led by Manuel Azaña, was composed of a coalition of the middle-class republican parties and the right wing of the Spanish … The Mexican Revolution, also known as the Mexican Civil War, began in 1910, ended dictatorship in Mexico and established a constitutional republic. In 1898 Cuba was a geopolitical aberration. In fact, it seems that his name already continue reading : Jose Rizal and the Revolution Simon Bolivar lived a short but comprehensive life. US businesses were afraid they would lose money that they had invested. History records his extraordinary versatility. Revolutionary Catalonia (21 July 1936 – 1939) was the part of Catalonia (autonomous region in northeast Spain) controlled by various anarchist, communist, and socialist trade unions, parties, and militias of the Spanish Civil War period. Cuba in 1898 José M. Hernandez. Spanish Civil War (1936–39), military revolt by Nationalist rebels, supported by conservative elements within the country, against the Republican government of Spain. The war made the US an important power in Asia. He was a revolutionary who freed six countries, an intellectual who argued the problems of national liberation, a general who fought a war of unremitting violence. These revolutions followed the American and French Revolutions, which had profound effects on the Spanish, Portuguese, and French colonies in the Americas. JOSE RIZAL AND THE REVOLUTION Revisiting Renato Constantino’s “Veneration without Understanding” By Chris Antonette Piedad-Pugay When we open the pages of history books in the Philippines, it is not surprising to see texts about the martyrdom of our most celebrated hero– Dr. Jose Rizal. Lying only 90 miles from the Florida keys, astride the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico, it was separated from Spain by the vast expanse of the Atlantic Ocean. When an initial military coup failed to win control of the entire country, a bloody civil war ensued, fought with great ferocity on both sides. … However, this had not made the country peaceful or prosperous. Why were US businesses upset by Spanish reactions to the Cuban Revolution during the late 1800s? Spain had been neutral during the First World War. In the wake of the ending of WWI, there was a major economic slump. Haiti, a French slave colony, was the first to follow the United States to independence during the Haitian Revolution, which lasted from 1791 to 1804. A more serious challenge to Spanish rule in Texas during the early nineteenth century came from the activities of the unlikely pairing of José Bernardo Maximiliano Gutiérrez de Lara, a Mexican rebel, and Augustus W. Magee, a former United States army officer. The revolution that so moved Orwell upon his first impression in 1936 had a defining characteristic that set it apart from other revolutionary episodes like the 1871 Paris Commune or the early days of the Russian Revolution. Why did the Spanish Government fail in 1931?