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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."
The United States and Cuba concluded a Treaty of Relations in 1934 which, among other things, continued the 1903 agreements that leased the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to the United States. In 1959 Fidel Castro 's 26th of July Movement overthrew the government of Fulgencio Batista and Batista fled the country on January 1, 1959.
From 1902 to 1934 Cuban and American law included the Platt Amendment, which guaranteed the United States right to intervene in Cuba, making it a U.S. protectorate, and also placed restrictions on Cuban foreign relations. [8] In 1934, Cuba and the United States signed the Treaty of Relations in which Cuba was obligated to give preferential ...
This is a timeline of Cuban history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Cuba and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Cuba. See also the list of colonial governors of Cuba and list of presidents of Cuba
On Friday John Kerry will make history as he becomes the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Cuba in more than seven decades. His visit is a pivotal milestone in the relationship between the ...
List of Cuba–United States aircraft hijackings; The Cuba Wars; Cuba–United States Maritime Boundary Agreement; Cuban Adjustment Act; Cuban American National Foundation; Cuban Americans; Cuban Anti-Slavery Committee; Cuban Assets Control Regulations; Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame; Cuban boat people; Cuban Democracy Act; Cuban dissident ...
Taíno genocide Viceroyalty of New Spain (1535–1821) Siege of Havana (1762) Captaincy General of Cuba (1607–1898) Lopez Expedition (1850–1851) Ten Years' War (1868–1878) Little War (1879–1880) Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898) Treaty of Paris (1898) US Military Government (1898–1902) Platt Amendment (1901) Republic of Cuba (1902–1959) Cuban Pacification (1906–1909) Negro ...
Cuba's foreign policy has been fluid throughout history depending on world events and other variables, including relations with the United States.Without massive Soviet subsidies and its primary trading partner, Cuba became increasingly isolated in the late 1980s and early 1990s after the fall of the USSR and the end of the Cold War, but Cuba opened up more with the rest of the world again ...