The correct answer is "exaggerated the truth about the event."
Very shortly after the USS Maine sunk, it was reported that the ship sunk due to an attack by the Spanish. The newspaper headlines blamed the Spanish completely and portrayed them as evil. Due to this propaganda, many American citizens supported the US getting involved in the affairs of Cuba and Spain. This would become known as the Spanish-American War.
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The correct answer is B
The Mexican-American war was an armed conflict that confronted the US an Mexico between 1846 and 1848. The conflict emerged in the aftermath of the annexation of Texas performed by the US in 1845, a territory that Mexico still considered one of its provinces (the most Northern one).
<u>The victory of the US over Mexico led to the territorial expansion that the first desired.</u>
