Cuba

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. This intense standoff was triggered by the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. Such a direct menace to American interests propelled the Cold War adversaries to the precipice of nuclear…

Proclamation 3447, issued by President John F. Kennedy on February 3, 1962, established an embargo on all trade between the United States and Cuba.

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Cuba, Volume VI is a collection of U.S. government documents detailing the shift in U.S.-Cuban relations from 1958 to 1960. It focuses on the Cuban Revolution, the fall of Fulgencio Batista's government, and the early years of Fidel Castro…

Law #3 of the Sierra Maestra on Agrarian Reform aimed to redistribute land to the landless peasants. This law established the principle of granting ownership to tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and squatters, while providing compensation for landowners. It allowed for the free distribution of land up…

Issued from Fidel Castro's rebel base in the Sierra Maestra mountains, the Sierra Maestra Manifesto was a crucial document of the Cuban Revolution. It aimed to rally support against the Batista dictatorship by promising a return to the 1940 Constitution, free elections within a year of Batista…

"History Will Absolve Me" was a two-hour-long speech delivered by Fidel Castro on October 16, 1953. It served as a defense during his trial for his attack on the Moncada Barracks. More a political manifesto than a legal argument, Castro used the trial to condemn the oppressive regime of…

The 1934 Treaty of Relations was an agreement between the United States and Cuba. It reflected President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy of non-intervention in Latin America. The most significant aspect of the 1934 treaty was its abrogation of the Platt Amendment, which had…

The Platt Amendment was a key piece of legislation that governed the relationship between the United States and Cuba. It limited Cuba's sovereignty by granting the U.S. the right to intervene in Cuban affairs. It also required Cuba to lease or sell land for American naval bases, most notably…

The Teller Amendment was a declaration stating that the United States would not annex Cuba after liberating it from Spain. Proposed by Senator Henry M. Teller, it aimed to reassure the American public and the international community that U.S. intervention in Cuba was to establish Cuban independence…

This political cartoon depicts future President James Buchanan and a group of men who appear to be thieves. These figures use quotations from the Ostend Manifesto to justify their actions of robbing Buchanan.

The Ostend Manifesto was a 1854 document that urged the United States to forcefully acquire Cuba from Spain. Driven by Southerners seeking to expand slavery and maintain political power, the manifesto argued for Cuba's annexation due to its location, weather, and potential rise of a slave…

In his "Ripe Fruit" Theory, John Quincy Adams argued that Cuba, then a Spanish colony, would gravitate toward the United States once its unnatural connection with Spain was severed. Comparing Cuba to a ripe fruit, Adams argued that the laws of political gravitation would bring the island…

The Alliance for Progress was a major foreign aid initiative by President John F. Kennedy. It aimed to promote economic development, social reform, and democratic stability in Latin America. Driven by Cold War anxieties and the desire to stop the spread of communism, the ten-year program sought to…

Victor Gillam's 1899 cartoon critiques the imperialist concept of the same name by depicting John Bull (Britain) and Uncle Sam (U.S.) as they struggle to carry baskets filled with caricatured non-white peoples up a steep hill.

"Uncle Sam's New Class in the Art of Self-Government" is a political cartoon by W.A. Rogers. It satirizes American imperial expansion after the Spanish-American War.

"The Cuban Melodrama" is a political cartoon by C.J. Taylor that depicts the escalating tensions between Spain, Cuba, and the United States before the Spanish-American War.

In 1966, Congress enacted the Cuban Adjustment Act (CAA). This granted Cuban citizens permanent resident status when entering the United States. It exempted them from immigrant quotas and certain inadmissibility grounds.

<p>Sixty-five years after the revolution, socialist regulations and the continuing embargo have brought on economic collapse and decaying cities.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> "The current was too strong, the demagogues too numerous, the fall elections too near"</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> To the question of acquiring new territories overseas, and owning colonies, one group of Americans answered with a resounding “No!”</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">A Volunteer’s Eyewitness Account of the War With Spain</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The U-2, Cuba, and the CIA</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Was the Cuban leader always a Marxist or did the United States impel him in that direction? A distinguished historian of Cuban affairs examines the critical years when the Castro revolution became a communist dictatorship.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> MATTERS OF FACT</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In the twilight of Castro’s regime, one of the soldiers who put him in power recalls what it was like to be a<em> <span class="typestyle"> fidelista</span></em> up in the hills four decades ago when a whole new, just, democratic world was there for the building.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Sexy and melancholy, festive and forlorn, the island has always heated the Yankee imagination. The author visits there in the late afternoon of a straitened era and looks back on four centuries of passionate misunderstandings.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How a J. P. Morgan partner and the former Secretary of the Navy defused a revolution just by being good guys</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Our war with Spain marked the first year of the American century.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> The White Man’s Burden</span> </p>

<p>Incriminating new evidence has come to light in KGB files and the authors' interviews of former Cuban intelligence officers which indicates that Fidel Castro probably knew in advance of Oswald's intent to kill JFK.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> As a Rough Rider in the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt’s attention to nature and love of animals were much in evidence, characteristics that would later help form his strong conservationist platform as president</span> </p>