1. History of
Modern Cuba
AP World History

2. 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.

3. American Soldiers in Cuba in 19022

4. What the US Fought For

5. Fulgencio Batista

6. Fidel Castro as a Young Revolutionary

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

8. The Bay of Pigs Fiasco: 1961

9. The Bay of Pigs Fiasco: 1961

10. The US “Lays an Egg?”

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

12. The Cuban Missile Crisis: October, 1962

13. Soviet-Cuban Construction

14. Soviet-Cuban Construction

15. Global Thermal Nuclear War?

16. Range of the Cuban Missiles

17. What’s the Message?

18. Cuban Exiles in Miami

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

20. The Refugee “Problem” Today

21. Castro at the United Nations
US Embargo of Cuba

22. Fidel Castro Today

23. Cuban-Americans Support the Republican Party