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This is a two part post. My first part, the Alternate history challenge, is for the posters to create a scenario in which the USA buys/ takes over Cuba before the American Civil War. The second part to this is something that I have been curious about. If the USA were to have obtained Cuba this early, could Spain have kept the Phillipines until modern day, as there would have been no Spanish-American War to break up their holdings?
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