List of wars involving Cuba
Wars involving Cuba
This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Cuba.
- Cuba defeat
- Cuba victory
- Another result (e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result, status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive)
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result | President | Prime Minister |
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López's Expeditions (1850-1851) | Filibusters | Spain | Defeat
| None | None |
Ten Years' War (1868–1878) | Cuban Liberation Army | Spain | Defeat | ||
Little War (1879–1880) | Cuban Liberation Army | Spain | Defeat
| ||
Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898) | Cuban Liberation Army United States | Spain | Victory
| ||
Cuban Pacification (1906) | Conservatives | Liberals | Liberal victory
| ||
Negro Rebellion (1912) | Cuba United States | PIC | Government victory
| ||
World War I (1917–1918) | France United Kingdom Russia United States Italy Japan China Canada Australia New Zealand India South Africa Serbia Montenegro Romania Belgium Greece Portugal Brazil Cuba Panama Guatemala Nicaragua Costa Rica Honduras | Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire Bulgaria | Victory
| ||
Sugar Intervention (1917–1922) | Conservatives United States | Liberals | Conservative victory
| ||
World War II (1941–1945)[1] | United States Soviet Union United Kingdom China France Poland Canada Australia New Zealand India South Africa Yugoslavia Greece Denmark Norway Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg Czechoslovakia Brazil Mexico Panama Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Dominican Republic Cuba | Germany Japan Italy Hungary Romania Bulgaria Croatia Slovakia Finland Thailand Manchukuo Mengjiang | Victory
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Cuban Revolution (1953–1959) | Batista Regime | M-26-7 Student Revolutionary Directorate Second National Front of Escambray Popular Socialist Party | Regime change
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Escambray Rebellion (1959–1965) | Castro Regime | Various Insurgents | Government victory
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Invasion of Panama[2] (1959) | Cuba | Panama | Defeat
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Invasion of the Dominican Republic[3] (1959) | Cuba | Dominican Republic | Defeat
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Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961) | Cuba | Brigade 2506 United States Cuban DRF | Victory
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Invasion of Venezuela[4] (1963) | Cuba | Venezuela | Defeat
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Sand War (1963–1964)[5] | Algeria Cuba | Morocco | Stalemate
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Congo Crisis (1964) | Simbas PSA Cuba | Congo-Léopoldville Belgium | Defeat
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Guinea-Bissau War of Independence (1964–1974) | PAIGC Cuba | Portugal | Stalemate (political victory)[6]
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Bolivian Campaign (1966–1967) | ELN Cuba | Bolivia United States | Defeat
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Machurucuto Incident (1967) | Cuba | Venezuela | Defeat
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Yemenite War of 1972 (1972) | South Yemen Cuba | North Yemen | Indecisive
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Yom Kippur War (1973) | Egypt Syria Iraq Jordan Algeria Morocco Saudi Arabia Cuba | Israel | Defeat | ||
Operation Independence (1975-1977) | ERP Montoneros Cuba[8][9][10] | Argentina | Defeat | ||
Angolan Civil War (1975–1991) | MPLA SWAPO SWANU Cuba MK | UNITA FNLA FLEC South Africa Zaire | Stalemate
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Ethio-Somali War (1977–1978) | Ethiopia Cuba South Yemen Soviet Union | Somalia WSLF | Victory
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Ethiopian Civil War (1977–1991) | Ethiopia Cuba | EPRP TPLF MEISON ANDM EDUP | Defeat | ||
Eritrean War of Independence (1977–1991) | Ethiopia Cuba South Yemen Soviet Union | ELF EPLF | Defeat
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Invasion of Grenada (1983) | Grenada Cuba | United States Grenadian Opposition Barbados Jamaica Antigua and Barbuda Dominica Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Defeat
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Footnotes
- ^ Cuba declared war on the Axis powers in December 1941, being one of the first Latin American countries to do so. On 15 May 1943, the Cuban patrol boat CS-13 sank the German submarine U-176.
- ^ "Rubén Miró y la invasión de cubanos a Panamá" (in Spanish). Panama City: La Estrella de Panamá. April 22, 2010. Archived from the original on July 18, 2019. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
- ^ Lora, J. Armando. "Invasión" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on March 4, 2008. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
- ^ Flores, Victor (September 28, 2013). ""Los cubanos son los artífices del fraude electoral en Venezuela"". El País (in Spanish). Madrid: Ediciones El País. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
- ^ Gleijeses 2002, p. 44.
- ^ A Guerra - Colonial - do Ultramar - da Libertação, 2nd Season (Portugal 2007, director Joaquim Furtado, RTP)
- ^ Loyola, Mario (7 October 2013). "How We Used to Do It - American diplomacy in the". National Review. p. 1. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ^ Enrique Díaz-Araujo. La guerrilla en sus libros. p. 98.
- ^ "Página/12 :: El país :: Gorriarán Merlo cuenta su versión". Retrieved 11 May 2016.
- ^ "Página/12". Retrieved 23 February 2015.
Bibliography
- Gleijeses, Piero (2002). Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959–1976. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-807-82647-8.
See also
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