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Industry was booming in Cuba and many black slaves were sent in to help.
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A ten year war happened to free slaves and slaves were fighting on both sides, in the end slaves on either side were set frree, but those who did not fight in the war had to go through another 10 years of slavery.
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This was the last of three wars fought wth Spain for Cuba's independence.
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Spain's flag is lowered in Havana, Cuba after the Cuban independence war, and the United States's rises.
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This ensured that the US would be allowed to get involved with Cuba's economical and political affairs.
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Military officers, along with Fulgencio Batista, overthrew the President of Cuba, Gerardo Machado
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Batista seizes power, and presides over an opressive and corrupt regime.
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Fidel Castro and his rebels take power away from former dicator Fulgencso Batista, Batista then flees thew country. The US starts to recognize the new government.
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As Cuba refused to process soviet oil, businesses in the US were expropriated by October.
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Washington bands exports to Cuba, other than medicine and food.
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Cuba and the Soviet Union share their communist policies
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Cuban parents feared that the new Cuban government would take awa their parental rights, so more than 14,000 children arrived in the US.
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US is done helping Cuba, they close the embassy
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Trained Cuban exiles, who had fled the country when Castro gained power, stage Bay of the pigs invasion, but it fails due to being greatl out numbered.
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US blockage forces remove soviet nuclear missels from Cuba. US presidens John F Kennedy agrees privately not to invade Cuba.
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Cuba and the Soviet Union had a 13 day political, and military standoff with the US
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Fidel Castro is elected president.
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Marial boat lift: Cuba says anyone can leave, 125,000 Cubans flee, causing a refugee crisis for the United States.
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Castro declares he will not stop Cubans trying to leave; some 40,000 people take to sea heading for United States.
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Five Cuban spys arrested in the United States. They are later convicted. Cuba mounts an international campaign to free them, saying they were defending their island against US based terror attempts.
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US president, Washington, has a list of "axis of evil" countires and Cuba is added to it because they were trying to make biological weapons.
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Rual Castro, brother of Fidel Castro, took Fidel's place while Fidel had an illness. Fidel was still considered to be the President of Cube at that time though.
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Fidel tells his country that he will no longer be the president of Cuba and refusses to be reelected.
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After years of tension between the Cathloic Church and Cuba, the Pope visits Cuba.
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The United States and Cuba's relationship is re-established by Cuban president, Raul Castro, and US president, Barack Obama
