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  2. Republic of Cuba (1902–1959) - Wikipedia

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    The most meaningful impact on Cuba that World War 1 had was on its sugar trade as much of the world's European supply was cut off with demand exploding along with profits from the industry. [53] Cuba later ended up signing the Treaty of Versailles. Cuba was a member of the League of Nations and later on its successor, the United Nations (UN).

  3. Cuba–United States relations - Wikipedia

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    After the opening of the island to world trade in 1818, trade agreements began to replace Spanish commercial connections. In 1820 Thomas Jefferson thought Cuba is "the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States" and told Secretary of War John C. Calhoun that the United States "ought, at the first possible opportunity, to take Cuba."

  4. Military Government of Cuba - Wikipedia

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    The main conditions of the amendment prohibited Cuba from signing any treaty allowing foreign powers to use the island for military purposes. The United States also maintained the right to interfere with Cuban independence in order to maintain a certain level of protection of life, though the extent of this intrusion was not defined.

  5. Provisional Government of Cuba - Wikipedia

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    The Government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the Treaty of Paris on the United States ...

  6. Cuban–American Treaty of Relations (1903) - Wikipedia

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    Cuban-American Professor Alfred-Maurice de Zayas argues that the lease may have been invalidated by material or fundamental breaches of its terms. [7] The February 1903 lease, in Article II, states that the United States is allowed "generally to do any and all things necessary to fit the premises for use as coaling or naval stations only, and ...

  7. Platt Amendment - Wikipedia

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    The Platt Amendment originated from American mistrust in the Cuban Constituent Assembly to formulate a new relationship between Cuba and the U.S. [6] Senator Orville H. Platt, chair of the Senate Committee on Relations with Cuba, spearheaded the bill alongside General Leonard Wood, the Governor of Cuba at the time and Secretary of War Elihu ...

  8. Why did Puerto Rico become part of the US? And why is ... - AOL

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    This intervention became known as the War of 1898, or the Spanish-American War. Spain lost and, in a treaty with the U.S., gave up control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines, Duany and ...

  9. United States embargo against Cuba - Wikipedia

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    After the Castro socialist government came to power on January 1, 1959, relations were initially friendly between Castro and the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration but became strained after the Agricultural Reform confiscated land owned by many American businesses and Cuba continued to sponsor revolutionary movements in other parts of the ...