economic embargo timeline

  • president Eisenhower

    president Eisenhower
    Eisenhower approves a covert action plan agaist cuba.
  • president Kennedy

    he broadens the partial trade restrictions imposed by eisenhower to ban all trade with cuba, except for non-subsidized sale of foods and medicines.
  • foreign assistance act

    The Foreign Assistance Act is amended to prohibit aid to "any country" that provides assistance to Cuba.
  • kennedy administration

    prohibits travel to cuba and makes financial and commercial transactions with cuba illegal for U.S. citizens
  • carter daministration

    the Carter Administration opens travel to Cuba by U.S. citizens. The Reagan Administration reinstitutes the ban in 1981.]
  • henry kissinger

    Secretary of State Henry Kissinger states that there is no possibility of U.S. relations with Cuba while Cuban troops are in Africa.
  • president carter

    president carter
    he drops the ban on travel to cuba and on U.S. citizens spending dollars in cuba
  • carter administration

    The Carter Administration relaxes laws to allow U.S. residents to send money to relatives in Cuba.
  • ronald reagan

    Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as U.S. President, and institutes the most hostile policy against Cuba since the invasion at Bay of Pigs.
  • mark Amendment

    Congress pass the Mack Amendment, which prohibits all trade with Cuba by subsidiaries of U.S. companies located outside the U.S., and proposes sanctions or cessation of aid to any country that buys sugar or other products from Cuba.
  • Cuban Democracy act

    president bush signs the cuban democracy act into law
  • Clinton Administration

    clinton administration announces a new people to people contact plan
  • HOLO 2.0

    HOLO 2.0