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Universal Newsreel about the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, romanized: Karibskiy krizis), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy ...
v. t. e. The United States Military Government in Cuba ( Spanish: Gobierno militar estadounidense en Cuba or Gobierno militar americano en Cuba ), was a provisional military government in Cuba that was established in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War in 1898 when Spain ceded Cuba to the United States. [1] [2]
Cuba–United States relations. Cuba and the United States restored diplomatic relations on July 20, 2015, after relations had been severed in 1961 during the Cold War. U.S. diplomatic representation in Cuba is handled by the United States Embassy in Havana, and there is a similar Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C.
2 destroyers sunk [ 9] The Spanish–American War[ b] (April 21 – December 10, 1898) began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. The war led to the United States emerging predominant in the Caribbean region, [ 15] and resulted ...
The Ten Years' War ( Spanish: Guerra de los Diez Años; 1868–1878), also known as the Great War ( Guerra Grande) and the War of '68, was part of Cuba 's fight for independence from Spain. The uprising was led by Cuban-born planters and other wealthy natives. On 10 October 1868, sugar mill owner Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and his followers ...
v. t. e. On March 2, 1901, the Platt Amendment was passed as part of the 1901 Army Appropriations Bill. [1] It stipulated seven conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish–American War, and an eighth condition that Cuba sign a treaty accepting these seven conditions.
The Cuban War of Independence ( Spanish: Guerra de Independencia cubana ), also known in Cuba as The Necessary War ( Spanish: La Guerra Necesaria ), [5] fought from 1895 to 1898, was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Ten Years' War (1868–1878) [6] and the Little War (1879–1880).
A war memorial to commemorate Cubans killed during the United States invasion of Grenada. A 748-person count of Cuban workers (all but 43 of whom were construction workers) was present in Grenada at the time of the invasion of Grenada by the U.S. in 1983. Cuba was involved in the construction of a civil airport in Saint John, Grenada.