Questions tagged [cuba]
For questions about the country of Cuba, including its people, history, and politics. Also use this tag for the history of indigenous cultures and settlers of the same area that predate the modern nation.
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How was the Cuban military capable of performing African interventions?
Cuba has led many interventions in Africa during the Cold War:
Instructors sent in Angola
Up to 400 000 soldiers, including instructors, tank brigades, air wings in Angola to help the fight against ...
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Why did the Soviet Union take the risk of deploying missiles to Cuba, which precipitated the Cuban Missile Crisis? [closed]
During the Cuban Missile Crisis both sides risked further escalation into a WW3. However, under MAD, Wikipedia says:
By the time of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, both the United States
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Was the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay actually important in 1985? And was it in any danger?
In the real world case that A Few Good Men is based on, in 1985 part of the guard for the base was a group called "The Ten" that went through grueling physical training in order to guard a ...
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Did Cuba Benefit More Economically by Dealing with the Soviets [closed]
The Soviets arguably had a good reason to deal with Cuba as it led to them having an attacking point in the event of a hot war. However, the US are usually inclined to boost a country's economy up to ...
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Why doesn’t Cuba's flag have any communist symbolism?
The wikipedia page on the flag of Cuba says:-
It is one of the two flags of a currently socialist country (the other being Laos) that does not use any Communist Symbolism.
The symbolism is (from ...
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What prompted Cuba to fight against South African Imperialism? [closed]
After the Cuban Revolution, Cuba fought against South African apartheid against the advice of its Soviet sponsors who were looking for a rapprochement with the US.
What prompted such a move? Although ...
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When did the Ciboney arrive on Cuba and displace the Guanahatabey?
Finding the answer to this question the conventional way is stumping my Google fu, as many sources describe Guanahatabey and Ciboney as synonymous. I am referring to the hunter-gatherer Guanahatabey, ...
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What happened first? The law that authorized the Cuban government to nationalize US firms or Eisenhower's Cuban sugar quota?
I'm asking these because both things happened the same day (6 July 1960) and the sources contradict each other about what happened first. Some Cuban sources says that Castro passed the law because of ...
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Are these Spanish American War uniforms?
Can anyone identify the uniforms these men are wearing? The young man in this picture may be my Grandfather, who fought in the Spanish American War. He was underage when he joined to fight.
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Military capacity of Turkey during the Cuban missile crisis (1962)?
I am doing a Model United Nations Security Council, as the head of Turkey with the agenda Cuban Missile Crisis; or simply put I am playing the role of Turkey in reshaping world history during the time ...
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Why did the US invade Cuba in such a weak manner? [closed]
I've been reading about the US's history with Cuba following the recent death of Castro, and the failure of the Bay of Pigs seems very odd to me. The only reason I can think of for carrying out such a ...
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Other than coffee and tobacco what major product became Cuba's source of wealth in the 18th century?
How did the Industrial Revolution affect the production of this commodity? What, if any, affect did the Great Depression have on the industry?
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How true to the originals are Che Guevara's published diaries?
I've been reading a few recently. They all have prologues that mention editing by his widow/daughter/Fidel, so I was wondering do we know how true they are to their original? Could it have been ...
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How many unarmed did Che Guevara kill personally or by order?
How many unarmed did Che Guevara execute kill or by his order?
I've seen numbers that range from 180 to 14,000 yet nothing official.
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What did Kennedy know about Soviet missiles during the Cuban missile crisis?
After the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US declassified reports showed that the USSR only had four operational ICBMs in October 1962, notwithstanding contrary rhetoric during the ...
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Why is the Spanish-American War not called the Spanish-Cuban-American War?
Cuba was at war with Spain since 2/24/1895. In fact, it was the third war against Spain for their independence. US arrived to the war in 1898, after the Maine's explosion. Very wise when Cubans had ...
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Why did Spain trade Florida to the British in exchange for Havana?
In 1763, Spain traded Florida to Great Britain in exchange for control of Havana, Cuba, which had been captured by the British during the Seven Years' War. wikipedia
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Where did Batista announce his resignation?
Wikipedia says, "On December 31, 1958, at a New Year's Eve party, Batista [then dictator of Cuba] told his Cabinet and top officials that he was leaving the country." The scene is famously depicted in ...
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How did Castro gain control over the Cuban military and police?
The Cuban revolution was won by only a few hundred revolutionaries. But to run a state, especially an undemocratic one, you need to have control over the monopoly on violence.
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What were the advantages of dual power in the beginning of Castro's Cuba
When discussing Castro's rise to power it occurred to me that he, Castro, was the one who initiated the dual power from January 1959 to November 1959, I have been struggling to find sources as to why ...
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Cover Art of "Álbum de la Revolución Cubana"
On the cover of the famous "Álbum de la Revolución Cubana":
Who is the person whose face is painted in the top-right corner? What is his importance?
Is the cover (where we see Fidel Castro actively ...
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Cuban medical internationalism
In the decades since the Cuban revolutions the country's medical doctors famously served on many semi-official missions abroad. For instance, it has been reported that Venezuela under Hugo Chavez ...
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Was the UN critically involved in defusing the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Is there any evidence to show that the Cuban Missile Crisis was scaled back because of the actions of UN personnel acting in their UN role?
The topic came up recently about precedent for UN having ...
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Why did Spain not participate in World War I?
Spain was losing influence in America for the previous 100 years, and there was a recent Spanish-American war. So how could have Spain remained neutral?
Why could Spain not find a place in the ...
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Economic effects of the Cuban Revolution
What were the economic effects of the Cuban Revolution? Were living conditions improved for the average Cuban? I'm looking for objective criteria like average income, wealth distribution, life ...
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Why was the Cuban Revolution (1953-1959) ultimately successful?
Communist revolutions have been attempted across the world - what were the primary reasons that the Cuban Revolution succeeded while others failed?
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Who, if any, in JFK's inner circle argued against the plans for the Bay of Pigs invasion?
Political discussions leading up to the Bay of Pigs invasion are a notorious example of 'groupthink' and the failure of a committee in coming to a well-informed decision. Accounts of the decision-...
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