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10 major events that took place in Cuba during 1900-2025
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Cuba gained officially gained full independence of their country on may 20,1902.It took place right after the Spanish-American war. After the war there was US occupation until eventually the platt amendment was passed, causing all US occupation to leave Cuba. -
Dance of the millions was a period of extreme economic boom in Cuba following World War I, caused by the volatile price of sugar. As sugar prices increased during the war, Cuba experienced a period of great prosperity where fortunes were made, new mansions were built, and spending was out of hand. -
Fulgencio Batista first became dictator of Cuba on March 10, 1952, when he staged a military coup, overthrowing the government of President Carlos Prío Socarrás. Batista had previously been the country's elected president from 1940 to 1944. -
During the cold war the united states attempted to carry out a plan to assassinate the leader of Cuba Fidel Castro for being allied with the soviet union. The CIA attempted to assassinate Fidel Castro numerous times with each time being unsuccessful -
The Cuban missile crisis was a 13 day confrontation between the governments of the united states and the soviet union during the cold war. The United states deployed nuclear missiles in the United Kingdom , Italy and Turkey. The soviet union responded by deploying nuclear missiles in Cuba , a neighbor country to the USA. This confrontation was the considered the closest that the two superpower countries had ever gotten to getting into a nuclear warfare. -
The special period was a time when Cuba's economy started to decline rapidly due to the withdrawal of soviets aid in the late 1900's.During this time there was a great economic depression but it started to get better when huego Chávez's ,Venezuela became the primary trading partner as well as ally of Cuba. -
The Helms burton act is a U.S. law with two main purposes that are to support a transition to democracy in Cuba and to protect the property rights of U.S. nationals whose property was confiscated by the Cuban government. -
Fidel Castro provisionally handed over power to Raúl while recovering from surgery in 2006.Raúl Castro was elected president of Cuba by the National Assembly on February 24, 2008. This happened shortly after his brother, Fidel Castro, announced he would not seek another term due to his health. -
The 2019 Cuban constitution, ratified in February 2019, maintained the country's socialist and one-party system but introduced key changes, including recognizing private property, establishing presidential term limits, and creating the new position of Prime Minister. It also enshrined new social and economic rights. -
The pandemic effected Cuba's economy in a very negative way. At the time there was already a decrease in tourism so this caused a lot of shortages and an increase in inflation. As the numbers of sick people increased, the economy slowly decreased and plummeted. -
Castro announced he would be stepping down from his role as the head of the Communist Party, the most powerful position in Cuba, at the party's congress in April 2021. He formally stepped down on April 16, 2021, ending the Castro family's formal leadership for the first time since the 1959 revolution.