By:Jeremy Gambino, Matt Belikoff, Mark Matthews

The Philippine Islands in Relation to the United States

• The Philippines are 7205 miles from the United States (Los Angeles)

U.S. Motives

• Control of the Philippines allowed the US a closer trading post with Asia.

• The US wanted to become more like Europe powers, all of them were imperializing.

• Many American imperialists believed they were among the most elite of nations

• There was a strong sense of nationalism at the time in the US .

How the U.S. got involved…

• The U.S. started the Philippine-American War in Feb. 4, 1899

• The war started after two American privates on patrol killed three Filipino soldiers in San Juan.

• The Philippine-American War cost far more money and killed far more people then the Spanish-American war (over 600,000 Filipino casualties and over 5,000 American soldiers killed)

People’s Reaction to Imperialism

• Originally, the Philippine people were open to the US.

• After they realized that the US wanted to control them they fought back.

• The result was the Philippine-American War

Superman or Mafia Don?

• The U.S. was acting more like a mafia Don• The Americans wanted to use the island

against the wishes of its inhabitants• The strength of the U.S. Navy depended, in

part, on its ability to secure as many ports as possible

War Never Changes• Both sides of the conflict

committed atrocities• Americans burned entire

settlements, crops, and massacred civilians

• Filipinos gruesomely tortured American soldiers, executed POW’s, and used guerilla warfare tactics to massacre American soldiers

Eventual Independence

• The Philippine Islands were granted their independence on July 4th, 1946, following the conclusion of WWII

Works Cited

• http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/usoccupy.htm

• http://www.nps.gov/prsf/historyculture/the-philippine-insurrectiothe-philippine-war-a-conflict-of-consciencen-a-war-of-controversy.htm

• http://opmanong.ssc.hawaii.edu/filipino/philam.html