After the Spanish-American War, the United States supported the independence of Cuba.
Explanation:
The explosion of the American battleship Maine meant the entry of the United States into the Cuban War of Independence. The declaration of war on Spain was not long in coming and the fighting, which focused on land before, moved to the sea, but realistic fleets could not respond to modern American battleships. The capture of Santiago de Cuba and the military superiority of the US troops, supported at all times by the Cuban forces under General Calixto García, forced the Spaniards, who were virtually finished, to surrender in 1898. The event opened the way to the US occupation of Cuba until 1902, where the independence of the Caribbean nation was declared, once the island managed to stabilize economically and politically with American support.
It was the "Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act" that was a disaster because when European nations responded with tariffs on American goods global trade plunged by roughly two thirds
<span> from 1929 levels.</span> This was viewed as exacerbating the Great Depression.
