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

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

3. Valeriano Weyler’s “Reconcentration” Policy

4. Remember the Maine! To Hell with Spain!

5. 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.

6. American Soldiers in Cuba in 19022

7. What the US Fought For

8. Fulgencio Batista

9. Fidel Castro as a Young Revolutionary

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

11. The Bay of Pigs Fiasco: 1961

12. The Bay of Pigs Fiasco: 1961

13. The US “Lays an Egg?”

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

15. The Cuban Missile Crisis: October, 1962

16. Soviet-Cuban Construction

17. Soviet-Cuban Construction

18. Global Thermal Nuclear War?

19. Range of the Cuban Missiles

20. What’s the Message?

21. Cuban Exiles in Miami

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

23. The Refugee “Problem” Today

24. Castro at the United Nations
US Embargo of Cuba

25. Fidel Castro Today

26. Cuban-Americans Support the Republican Party