CAN SOMEONE PLEASE give me a little history lesson about the U.S. annexing Samoa in 1899!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

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goldphenoix · Answer

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/samoa-1899.htm.

anonymous · Answer

the link didn't work :/ but thank you

goldphenoix · Answer

The link worked fine a few minutes ago. o.o. Idk whath happened to it.

anonymous · Answer

lmao its okay :)

goldphenoix · Answer

"The US annexed Hawaii. The annexation started in 1893 with the US-backed overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii. The purpose of the overthrow was to annex Hawaii into the US but the US began to regret it and demanded that the Queen be re-instated, After the provisional govt refused, the US completed annexation in 1898.

The Samoan islands were split in the 1899 Samoan Tripartite Convention (UK, US, Germany). Western Samoa was given to Germany and the eastern islands were given to the US and called American Samoa. After WW1, Germany lost Western Samoa to New Zealand in the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. Western Samoa got its independence in 1962. The American half, American Samoa, remains to this day as an American territory."

anonymous · Answer

thank you again lol :)

goldphenoix · Answer

No problem. :)