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The Spanish-American war, the first major overseas conflict for the United States, began in 1898. Though there were a great number of causes that built up to this conflict, there were two that were the most immediate and obvious. The first was the fact that the United States were continually supporting the struggle of Cuba. Three years earlier, a revolt had broken out in Cuba, and guerrilla forces were fighting to take their independence from Spain.