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History of Modern Cuba: Tracing the Cuban Journey from Independence to the Cuban Missile Crisis

Dive into the intricate history of modern Cuba, exploring key events like the Spanish-American War, Fidel Castro's reforms, the Bay of Pigs Fiasco, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Uncover the impact of the Platt Amendment, Cuban Adjustment Act, and US embargo on Cuba's socio-political landscape.

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History of Modern Cuba: Tracing the Cuban Journey from Independence to the Cuban Missile Crisis

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  1. History of Modern Cuba Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

  2. The Cuban “Melodrama” The Spanish-American War: 1898

  3. Valeriano Weyler’s “Reconcentration” Policy

  4. Remember the Maine!To Hell with Spain!

  5. Cuban “Independence?” Senator Orville Platt Platt Amendment (1903) 1. Cuba was not to enter into any agreements with foreign powers that would endanger its independence. 2. The U.S. could intervene in Cuban affairs if necessary to maintain an efficient, independent govt. 3. Cuba must lease Guantanamo Bay to the U.S. for naval and coaling station. 4. Cuba must not build up an excessive public debt.

  6. American Soldiers in Cubain 19022

  7. What the US Fought For

  8. FulgencioBatista

  9. Fidel Castro as a Young Revolutionary

  10. Cuban “Young Pioneers” What were some of Castro’s reforms??

  11. The Bay of Pigs Fiasco: 1961

  12. The Bay of Pigs Fiasco: 1961

  13. The US “Lays an Egg?”

  14. Cuba is 90 Miles from the Florida Coast A Soviet “Client-State”

  15. The Cuban Missile Crisis:October,1962

  16. Soviet-Cuban Construction

  17. Soviet-Cuban Construction

  18. Global Thermal Nuclear War?

  19. Range of the Cuban Missiles

  20. What’s the Message? This British cartoon of 29 October 1962 shows Kennedy and Khrushchev arm-wrestling for power, sitting on nuclear weapons.   The caption read: 'OK Mr president, let's talk'

  21. The Cuban “Boat People” The Cuban Adjustment Act - 1966

  22. Cuban Exiles in Miami

  23. The Refugee “Problem” Today

  24. Castro at the United Nations US Embargo of Cuba

  25. "Future students of American history will be scratching their heads about this case for decades to come. Our embargo and refusal to normalize diplomatic relations has nothing to do with communism. Otherwise, we wouldn't have had diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War, with China since Nixon, and with Vietnam despite our bitter war there. No, Cuba was pure politics. Though it started out to be a measure of an administration's resistance to Castro's politics, it very soon became a straight-jacket whereby first-generation Cuban-Americans wielded inordinate political power over both parties and constructed a veto over rational, mature diplomacy." • — Gary Hart, former U.S. Senator, March 2011

  26. Fidel Castro Today

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