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Cuban Missile Crisis Timeline |
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Cuba was first inhabited by
Native American Indians |
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1492 |
Discovered by Christopher
Columbus |
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1500's |
Colonised by the Spanish under
the leadership of Diego de Velazquez in 1511 |
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1526 |
Slaves were shipped from
Africa |
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1762 |
Havana was captured by a
British force led by Admiral George Pocock and Lord
Albemarle. |
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1763 |
Treaty of Paris: Havana
returned to Spain |
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1868 |
1868-1878: Ten Years War of
independence |
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1886 |
Slavery was abolished |
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1895 |
1895-1898: Second war of
independence lead by Jose Marti |
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1895 |
US declares war on Spain |
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1898 |
US defeat Spain all Spanish
claims to Cuba are relinquished and cedes it to the
US. |
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1902 |
Cuba becomes independent but
the Platt Amendment keeps Cuba under US protection
which retains the right to intervene in internal
affairs of Cuba Tomas
Estrada Palma elected president
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1906 |
1906-1909: President Estrada
resigns and the US occupies Cuban territory
following a rebellion led by Jose Miguel Gomez
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1909 |
Jose Miguel Gomez elected
president |
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1912 |
Black protests against
discrimination and US forces return to Cuba |
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1924 |
Gerado Machado establishes a
dictatorship |
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1925 |
Socialist Party founded
leading to Cuban Communist |
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1933 |
Gerado Machado overthrown in a
coup led by Sergeant Fulgencio Batista. |
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1934 |
US relinquishes right to
intervene in internal affairs of Cuba |
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1944 |
Fulgencio Batista retires and
Ramon Gray San Martin becomes President of Cuba |
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1952 |
Fulgencio Batista takes power
again |
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1953 |
Fidel Castro leads an
unsuccessful revolution against Batista |
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1956 |
Fidel Castro and Che Guevara
lead the revolution |
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1958 |
US withdraws military aid to
Fulgencio Batista |
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1959 |
January 1: Fidel Castro leads
the Communist revolution with Che Guevara and the
rebel army overthrows President Fulgencio
Batista
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1960 |
December 19: Cuba openly
aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their
Communist policies. A Cuban Communist State was set
up with Russian backing. Fidel Castro allows the
USSR to deploy nuclear missiles on the island
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1961 |
Cuban Missile Crisis Timeline |
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1962 |
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1972 |
Cuba becomes a member of the
Soviet based Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. |
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1976 |
Fidel Castro elected
president. |
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1970's |
Cuba sends troops to intervene
in African disputes |
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1988 |
Cuba withdraws its troops from
Angola following an agreement with South Africa. |
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1991 |
Collapse of the USSR |
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1996 |
US trade embargo |
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2006 |
July: President Fidel Castro
undergoes surgery and temporarily hands over control
of the government to his brother, Raul. |