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Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY History of Modern Cuba Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

The Spanish-American War: 1898 The Cuban “Melodrama” The Spanish-American War: 1898

Valeriano Weyler’s “Reconcentration” Policy

Remember the Maine! To Hell with Spain!

Cuban “Independence?” Platt Amendment (1903) Senator Orville Platt 1. Cuba was not to enter into any agreements with foreign powers that would endanger its independence. 2. The U.S. could intervene in Cuban affairs if necessary to maintain an efficient, independent govt. 3. Cuba must lease Guantanamo Bay to the U.S. for naval and coaling station. 4. Cuba must not build up an excessive public debt.

American Soldiers in Cuba in 19022

What the US Fought For

Fulgencio Batista

Fidel Castro as a Young Revolutionary

Cuban “Young Pioneers” What were some of Castro’s reforms??

The Bay of Pigs Fiasco: 1961

The Bay of Pigs Fiasco: 1961

The US “Lays an Egg?”

Cuba is 90 Miles from the Florida Coast A Soviet “Client-State”

The Cuban Missile Crisis: October, 1962

Soviet-Cuban Construction

Soviet-Cuban Construction

Global Thermal Nuclear War?

Range of the Cuban Missiles

What’s the Message?

Cuban Exiles in Miami

The Cuban “Boat People” The Cuban Adjustment Act - 1966

The Refugee “Problem” Today

Castro at the United Nations US Embargo of Cuba

Fidel Castro Today

Cuban-Americans Support the Republican Party