Spain Keeps Micronesia

[Super_Cool]

After the Spanish-American War, Spain sold Micronesia to Germany. Spain sold them because they were worthless without the Philippines. In OTL, Micronesia went Spain --> Germany --> Japan --> USA --> independence.

What if, thanks to pure inertia, Spain keeps the islands after the S-A War? What developments occur in the Pacific?

 

[Dustin]

Japan would probably try to buy them out. If Spain still tried to keep them Japan would likely just invade at some point, and Spain probably wouldn't really care.

 

[Alexius848]

I don't thinks Spain could make much of them, they are a group of unimportant islands. As the above poster said Japan would probably invade them in the early 20th Century with little to no resistance from Spain.