They quickly gained air superiority over the Allies, who at this stage of the war were often disorganized, under-trained and poorly equipped, and Japanese air power contributed significantly to their successes in the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore, the Dutch East Indies and Burma.

Cuba gained its independence and Spain lost its remaining New World colony, Puerto Rico, which together with Guam and the Philippines were ceded to the United States for 20 million dollars.

Although the United States gained control of Guam and the Philippines from Spain in 1898, Japan controlled most of the western Pacific by 1914 and occupied many other islands during World War II.

After its victory in the Spanish-American War of 1898 and the subsequent acquisition of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam, the United States had gained a colonial empire.

Despite opposition against the new plan, the Marcos government gained Congressional approval and Philippine troops were sent from the middle of 1966 as the Philippines Civic Action Group ( PHILCAG ).

In March 2011, a 3 year-old girl in Antique Province, Philippines gained media attention for mysteriously producing and predicting fire.

On July 4, 1946, the Philippines gained independence from the US.

In the Philippines, the fruit and tree are traditionally known as Lumbang after which Lumban, a lakeshore town in Laguna is named although the name Jatropha has since gained more popularity.

In the Philippines, the yellow ribbon first gained prominence in the 1980s during the Martial Law era as a symbol of opposition leader Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr.

Also during that year, the Treaty of Paris ( which entered into force April 11, 1899 ) ended the Spanish American War and the United States gained the islands of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam.

Unlike the rest of the Philippines which gained independence from the United States after World War II in 1946, Olongapo was governed as a part of the United States naval reservation.

When the Philippines gained independence from the United States on July 4, 1946, he became the first president of the new republic.

Meliton Geronimo, has gained worldwide recognition as a martial arts leader and the Philippines, through the Karate ( Sikaran ) Brotherhood of the Philippines, has emerged as a powerhouse in the international Karate scene.

The clones were a more affordable alternative to the more expensive Tamiyas, which gained popularity in the Philippines in the early 2000s ( decade ), as well as several other nations like Indonesia, Malaysia, Italy & Hong Kong.

* 1997-Renamed its new subsidiary Maybank Philippines Inc. ( MPI ) which later gained full control of the enterprise

Pinoy gained popular currency in the late 1970s in the Philippines when a surge in patriotism made a hit song of Filipino folk singer Heber Bartolome's " Tayo ' y mga Pinoy " (" We are Pinoys ").

Trousers of such a fabric gained popularity in the U. S. when Spanish-American War veterans returned from the Philippines with their twill military trousers.

He won La Gran Cruz de María Cristina (" Grand Cross of Maria Cristina ") for his command of troops in the Philippines in 1895, < nowiki > display </ nowiki > ing a cold and brutal approach which would surface prominently in Cuba, where he invented ' hamleting ' and gained the sobriquet " The Butcher ".

British Parliamentary Debate is very widespread, and has gained major support in the United Kingdom, Ireland, continental Europe, Africa, Philippines and United States.

By effectively neutralizing U. S. air and naval power in the Philippines, the Japanese gained supremacy that isolated the Philippines from reinforcement and resupply, and provided itself with both airfields for support of its invasion forces and staging bases for further operations in the Netherlands East Indies.

In 2005, despite being one of the youngest nursing schools in the Philippines, the San Beda College of Nursing batch 2005 ( first batch of Bedan Nurses ) gained a record of 88 % passing rate in the Philippine Nursing Licensure Exam with one of them ranked 8th among all candidates nationwide.

By the late 19th century, the U. S. had several interests in the western Pacific to defend ; namely, access to the Chinese market, and colonies – the Philippines and Guam – which the U. S. had gained as a result of the Spanish – American War ( 1898 ).

In 1898, Carnegie tried to arrange for independence for the Philippines.

To counter what he perceived as imperialism on the part of the United States, Carnegie personally offered $ 20 million to the Philippines so that the Filipino people could buy their independence from the United States.

* After the Spanish American War, Carnegie offered to donate $ 20 million to the Philippines so they could buy their independence.

* 1898 – Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines ' independence from Spain.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Philippines from Spain in 1898.

* 1946 – After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.

* 1935 – The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.

This was inspired by the attendance of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía at the June 12, 1998 celebration honoring the centennial of the Philippines ' independence from Spain.

** After over 381 years of Western dominance, the Philippines attains full independence.

* President of the United States Woodrow Wilson promises eventual independence for Philippines, though subsequent Republican administrations see it as a distant goal.

* June 12 – Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines ' independence from Spain.

* January 17 – The U. S. Congress votes favorably for Philippines independence, against the view of President Herbert Hoover.

* US Congress makes the Philippines a self-governing commonwealth and schedules independence for 1944.

In the Philippines, Filipino revolutionaries declared independence from Spain in 1898 but was handed over to the United States despite protests as a result of the Spanish-American War.

Indonesia declared independence in 17 August 1945 and subsequently fought a bitter war against the returning Dutch ; the Philippines was granted independence by the United States in 1946 ; Burma secured their independence from Britain in 1948, and the French were driven from Indochina in 1954 after a bitterly fought war ( the Indochina War ) against the Vietnamese nationalists.

On September 23, 2010, Mohagher Iqbal said that the MILF will pursue for a substate likened to a U. S. State instead of independence from the Philippines.

In the early 19th century the revolutionary movements resulted in the independence of most Spanish colonies in America, except for Cuba and Puerto Rico, given up in 1898 following the Spanish-American War, together with Guam and the Philippines in the Pacific.

The Tydings-McDuffie Act ( officially the Philippine Independence Act, ) was a United States federal law which provided for self-government of the Philippines and for Filipino independence from the United States after a period of ten years.

Prior to independence, the act allowed the U. S to maintain military forces in the Philippines and to call all military forces of the Philippine government into U. S. military service.

Originally written as incidental music, it did not have words when it was adopted as the national anthem of the Philippines and subsequently played during the proclamation of Philippine independence on June 12, 1898.

In 1815, there was the end of the galleon trade across the Pacific Ocean between the Philippines and Mexico, since Mexico had declared its indepencence of the Spanish Empire in 1810, and an extended war of independence had begun that lasted through 1821.