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Title: History of Cuba


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History of Cuba
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1492-1902
  • 1492 1st European to get there was Columbus
  • Became a Spanish colony for many centuries
  • African slaves worked on coffee and sugar
    plantations
  • 1898 Cubans overthrew Spanish rule with the help
    of the US in the Spanish-American War
  • 1901 Platt Amendment
  • US got a naval base in Cuba (Guantanamo Bay)
  • Cubas right to negotiate treaties was limited
  • 1902 Cuban independence

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1902-1959
  • Corrupt governments 1902-1959
  • Plantations, refineries, railroads, and factories
    passed to American ownership b/c Americans
    invested in them
  • US supported the dictatorship of Fulgencio
    Batista until 1959
  • Jan. 1959 Fidel Castro became leader of Cuba
  • Hailed as a liberator
  • Communist

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Castro 1959-1961
  • Anti-American
  • America imposed sanctions on Cuba
  • 1961 Bay of Pigs
  • U.S. equipped/trained a rebel army of Cubans
  • Invaded Southern Cuba, poor planning and lack of
    U.S. support HUGE DEFEAT
  • Prompted Castro to ally with U.S.S.R.

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Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
  • U.S.S.R. placed nuclear missiles in Cuba
  • U.S. was hours away from launching nukes
  • Agreement Missiles taken out of Cuba, U.S. took
    its missiles out of Turkey

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Cuba Today
  • Allies with China and Venezuela (trading
    partners)
  • Raul Castro is the leader
  • Communist-run and reporters have to follow what
    the government says
  • Cuban population in Miami, FL people send money
    home to Cuba to families
  • Prostitution, corruption, black marketeering and
    desperate efforts to escape in search of a better
    life b/c lack of jobs
  • Human rights violations
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