cuba's historical events

By sjones16
  • Jan 1, 1514

    Havana founded as San Cristóbal de la Habana Colonised by the Spanish

    This is now the capital of Cuba.

  • Epidemic kills a third of the island's population

  • Overthrow of the king of Spain

    This was Cuba’s first step to becoming independent.

  • The Cuban struggle for independence culminated with the Spanish-American War which resulted in Cuban Independence form Spain

    this war was all a bought independence and slavery for the Cuban people.
  • Period: to

    1902 -1934 The USA adopted limited occupation in Cuba

    this helped track US citacins in Cuba

  • Discovered by Christopher Columbus

    he brought trade and inventions to the island

  • Epidemic kills a third of the island's population

    this was a mager blow to the cuban economy

  • Cuban Revolution - Fidel Castro assumes power

    this ment eaven more freedoms for the cuban people

  • Fidel Castro led a Communist revolution and the rebel army overthrew the Cuban president Fulgencio Batista

    Fidel Castro was a berutal leader to Cuba

  • a Cuban Communist State was set up with Russian backing

    this is one of Cubas major aliences
  • Period: to

    Cuban missal crises

    Russa was seting up nukuler missles in cuba and the U.S. forced them to leav with theire missles and suplys

  • 1986- slavery abolishedIn

    this freeed many Afrcan americans

  • Cuba openly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their policies.

    their was a fude with the solvet union over policies