- No one really knows if Spain had any involvement in the destruction of the USS Maine, it was based off of an assumption.
- The cause for a majority of deaths during the war was yellow fever.
- The Spanish troops and civilians who were in Guam at the time of the war actually had no idea that the war had started. They actually welcomed US troops when they came to capture the island.
- The term “Yellow Journalism” actually became popular before the Spanish American war.