Hispano-Japanese War

The Hispano-Japanese War is a fictional conflict in Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 alternate history series. This is only a sideshow event, for which the author don't tell much about it.

After the victory of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War (1861–1865), the southern states become independent with the support of Great Britain and France. Then, they tried to expand their territories to the south, pressuring Spain to yielding they her colony of Cuba. This little explained event finalized one year in the 1870s with the Confederate acquisition of Cuba (wich will became a new State of the Confederation in the future), probably after a short war lost by Spaniards. Nevertheless, Spain retained the government of Puerto Rico and her other colonies.

Later, the weakening of Spanish army and the confused politics in the country attract the atention of Japan (wich has just to obtaining Chosen and Formose from China)to the near Spanish colonies in the West Indies. This lead to a confrontation in the first years of 20th century (c. 1901-1905) between the two countries, that finalizes with the Japanese occupation of the Philippines and Guam after a new war. Some time later, Spain sells her last colonies in the Pacific, the Marianas Islands, to Germany (like he did in the actual Timeline).

Finally, the success of Japan convinces the Russian Empire to no discuss the influence of Japan in Korea and China, for which the Tsar's Army do not abandons its bases in the Baltic Sea, and the Russian-Japanese War of 1905 never occurs.