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.

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 ...

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.

The cold war will never be the same again. The struggle that began with the U.S. blockade of Cuba is far from over. But the U.S. took a firm stand and the Russians retreated with abject haste.

The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of Cold War tension in Europe. America and the Soviet Union were competing in the ...

At the United Nations General Assembly on October 30, 187 countries voted for a nonbinding resolution to end “the economic, ...