pushed Cuba into the arms of the Soviet Union. So began years of dangerous political manoeuvring that culminated in the 1962 missile crisis and the day the world came close to nuclear war.
Unlike the Ten Years' War, the Cuban Independence Movement of the 1890s was not ignored by the United States. By 1895, the United States was a very different nation than it had been in 1865.
Since its discovery by Christopher Columbus in 1493, Cuba was considered the "Pearl ... ended what became known as the Ten Years' War. Although the Ten Years' War failed, the events proved ...
Russia is scrambling to enlist more soldiers to replace the vast numbers killed or wounded in the nearly three-year war in Ukraine. In Cuba, Russia's old Cold War ally, the repressive regime ...