Cuba – United States relations

of the nineteenth century, United States had special relationships mainly with Mexico and Cuba—of course they interacted with other Latin American countries, but it was minimal compared to their relationship with Mexico and Cuba and mostly was concerning trade. The reason for this was the fact that Latin America, apart from Cuba and Mexico, was mainly politically and economically tied to Great Britain. When Latin America became independent in the 1820s, the United States and Great Britain…

Relations among Cuba and the United States have long been interlinked. The turbulent relationship between the pair, stemming from the Cold War era, scarred the modern age and left a notorious legacy. The issue continues to influence world affairs today and the scar tissue of the war continues to make news. In Panama, on the 11th of April 2015, President Obama and President Castro marked the first meeting between the pair by shaking each other’s hand. This was the first time since 1961 that a U.S…

One late afternoon, a United States satellite orbiting in space picked up an unsettling and unexplained image. If there was one thing every Cuban loved, it was baseball. All Cuban military bases in 1952 had at least one baseball field to give the soldiers something recreational to do. The satellite image showed a select few bases without any baseball fields; these bases had soccer fields constructed instead. A CIA consultant noticed this and it raised questions in his mind as he observed,…

well with United States forces trying to succeed and keep communism from becoming the overall factor in the leadership ways of government for the Korean people. In the end, the United States would not bring home a victory and Korea would still be divided into two peninsulas: North and South Korea (Document E). Within the “Korean War Armistice”, Korea was separated into two, North and South Korea, by a military demarcation that was led by leaders that supported communism. Once the United States…

came into power over Cuba for the second time. Politically and militarily supported by the United States, Batista became anti-communist and allowed American business to dominate the Cuban economy (Wikipedia.org). Batista’s tyrannical rule motivated Fidel Castro, a revolutionary, to overthrow his dictatorship. As the new Castro government self-proclaimed they were Marxist-Leninists, US relations with Cuba dissolved (History.com). Castro nationalized all American businesses in Cuba and developed…

acquired both the capability and willingness to underwrite the survival of a revolution 6,000 miles from its border and 90 miles from the United States". The Soviet Union had not only backed Castro economically, but had established political ties with Cuba. In response to this development, President Eisenhower ordered a secret mission to train Cuban exiles to invade Cuba. When President John F. Kennedy became president in 1963, he advanced the operation and sponsored the Bay of Pigs. Although…

The United States had progressively become more and more involved with foreign affairs in the 1860s-1920s. The United States ' influence had grown, just as much as the nation 's industrial power had grown during those years. Due to the United States growing imperialism "American 's were increasingly aware of themselves as an emerging world power." The United States ' surge of imperialism was aided by its drastic increase in military strength, and massive industrial and agriculture…

The Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War have often been categorized as either where the United States went wrong and became an imperialist power or where it went right and exerted its right to protect and promote democratic values. Historically the literature about United States involvement in the Spanish-American War has been to commemorate 1898 as the moment in which the nation first projected itself as a world power. The year 1898 was a watershed moment in history, it has…

the 27th of 1962, a Soviet missile shot down a U-2 reconnaissance plane over Cuba. Appropriate action must be taken to help avoid a third world war. The decision to not go to war and make another attempt at peace must prevail. It must prevail for the sake of saving millions of civilian lives whom need not be subjected to another war, a war on a much larger and more destructive scale. Beyond that, how would the United States look on a global scale where we would be seen as declaring war onto the…

inequality is the cause of social strain and can only be eliminated through the nationalization of private property and businesses (Dhar, 2014).. The year 1953 marked the beginning of a significant time period for the Cuban nation as Fidel Castro united with his allies to overthrow the former Cuban President, Fulgencio Batista (McKelvey, 2014). Batista was detested by many of the…