Susan M Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua NY

Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

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

Valeriano Weyler’s “Reconcentration” Policy

Remember the Maine! To Hell with Spain!

Cuban “Independence? ” Senator Orville Platt Amendment (1903) 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? This British cartoon of 29 October 1962 shows Kennedy and Khrushchev armwrestling for power, sitting on nuclear weapons. The caption read: 'OK Mr president, let's talk'

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

Cuban Exiles in Miami

The Refugee “Problem” Today

Castro at the United Nations US Embargo of Cuba

• "Future students of American history will be scratching their heads about this case for decades to come. Our embargo and refusal to normalize diplomatic relations has nothing to do with communism. Otherwise, we wouldn't have had diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War, with China since Nixon, and with Vietnam despite our bitter war there. No, Cuba was pure politics. Though it started out to be a measure of an administration's resistance to Castro's politics, it very soon became a straight-jacket whereby first-generation Cuban-Americans wielded inordinate political power over both parties and constructed a veto over rational, mature diplomacy. " • — Gary Hart, former U. S. Senator, March 2011

Fidel Castro Today