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The War of 1912 (Spanish: Levantamiento Armado de los Independientes de Color, lit. 'Armed Uprising of the Independents of Color'), also known as the Little Race War, the Negro Rebellion, or The Twelve, was a series of protests and uprisings in 1912 in Cuba, which saw conflict between Afro-Cuban rebels and the armed forces of Cuba.
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1900 to 1944 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1900 and 1944.. This period saw the outbreak of World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), which are among the deadliest conflicts in human history, with many of the world's great powers partaking in total war and some partaking in genocides.
The Cuban War of Independence was a conflict between Cuban Revolutionaries and Spain that lasted from 1895 to 1898. The United States intervened in 1898 on the side of the Cuban revolutionaries as a part of the Spanish–American War. At the end of the war, Cuba became a US protectorate.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Dominican Civil War (1911–1912) Battle of Driskos; E. East Timorese rebellion of 1911 ...
The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War is a collection of works by Ernest Hemingway. [1] It contains Hemingway's only full length play, The Fifth Column, which was previously published along with the First Forty-Nine Stories in 1938, along with four stories about Hemingway's experiences during the Spanish Civil War, previously published on magazines between 1938 and 1939.
The war contributed to the popular image of Theodore Roosevelt as a war hero and advanced his career, in 1901 became the 26th president of the United States; Spain sells to Germany its last colonies in the Pacific in 1899; Philippine–American War (1899–1902) Location: Philippines U.S. soldiers during the Battle of Manila. 1899–1902 United ...
Part of the Reconquista and Spanish Christian–Muslim War of 1172–1212; Location: Iberian Peninsula. Kingdom of Castile Order of Santiago Order of Évora: Almohad Caliphate: Defeat Castilian–Leonese War (1196–1197) - Part of Spanish Christian–Muslim War of 1172–1212 Location: Iberian Peninsula. Kingdom of Castile. Kingdom of Aragon ...
The background of the Spanish Civil War dates back to the end of the 19th century, when the owners of large estates, called latifundios, held most of the power in a land-based oligarchy. The landowners' power was unsuccessfully challenged by the industrial and merchant sectors.