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Slavery
Industry was booming in Cuba and many black slaves were sent in to help. -
slavery is abolished
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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Cuban war of independence
This was the last of three wars fought wth Spain for Cuba's independence. -
US flag rises
Spain's flag is lowered in Havana, Cuba after the Cuban independence war, and the United States's rises. -
Platt Amendment
This ensured that the US would be allowed to get involved with Cuba's economical and political affairs. -
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Overthrowing of the president
Military officers, along with Fulgencio Batista, overthrew the President of Cuba, Gerardo Machado -
Batista seizes power again.
Batista seizes power, and presides over an opressive and corrupt regime. -
Fidel Castro becomes dictator of Cuba
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. -
Cuba and US relationship goes bad
As Cuba refused to process soviet oil, businesses in the US were expropriated by October. -
The start of US embargo
Washington bands exports to Cuba, other than medicine and food. -
Cuba align with the Societ Union
Cuba and the Soviet Union share their communist policies -
Operation Peter Pan
Cuban parents feared that the new Cuban government would take awa their parental rights, so more than 14,000 children arrived in the US. -
Relations are broken with Cuba
US is done helping Cuba, they close the embassy -
Bay of the Pigs
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. -
US blockage forces removal of soviet nuclear missels from Cuba.
US blockage forces remove soviet nuclear missels from Cuba. US presidens John F Kennedy agrees privately not to invade Cuba. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Cuba and the Soviet Union had a 13 day political, and military standoff with the US -
Cuba's new President
Fidel Castro is elected president. -
Mariel boat lift
Marial boat lift: Cuba says anyone can leave, 125,000 Cubans flee, causing a refugee crisis for the United States. -
Castro declares he will not stop Cubans trying to leave.
Castro declares he will not stop Cubans trying to leave; some 40,000 people take to sea heading for United States. -
Five Cuban spys arrested in the United States.
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. -
Washington's list
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. -
Raul Castro
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. -
Fidel will no longer be president
Fidel tells his country that he will no longer be the president of Cuba and refusses to be reelected. -
Cuba and the Church
After years of tension between the Cathloic Church and Cuba, the Pope visits Cuba. -
US and Cuba
The United States and Cuba's relationship is re-established by Cuban president, Raul Castro, and US president, Barack Obama
