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> The Philippine War started in 1898 in Cuba, and began US world expansion.

That is not entirely true. The United States government and/or its citizens acting autonomously had global reach much earlier than 1898.

Throughout the nineteenth century, American expansionism was seen in various Central American countries, Ecuador, Liberia and Japan, for instance. In some cases, like in Japan and in Brazil, America’s aggressive policies were thwarted. But it does not mean that there was not expansionism.