Politics in Cuba short timeline

1898

U.S. Intervention/Spanish-Cuban-American War

1901-02

Platt Amendment (limit Cuban sovereignty and allows US intervention)

1952

Batista coup (ends constitutional politics)

1953

Moncada attack (Castro becomes nationally known)

1959

Revolution triumphs, Batista flees, land reforms, revolutionary trials, growing U.S. Suspicion

1961

U.S. break relations; Bay of Pigs

October 1962

Missile Crisis

1970

Failed 10-million-ton sugar harvest

1975-76

Institutionalisation/ Angola/ Constitution

1986

Rectification

1991

Soviet collapse/ Special Period

1994

Maleconazo + Balsero crisis

1996

Helms-Burton

2006

Fidel gets sick; Raúl transition

Dec 17, 2014

Obama and Raúl normalisation announcement

2016

Obama visit Cuba

2017

Trump rollback (wet foot/dry foot end in Jan 2017)

2018-21

Díaz-Canal succeeds Raúl

2021

11J protests

2022-24

Biden partial easing; not full obama restoration

1933-34

U.S. influence persists despite formal repeal of Platt Amendment

1956

Granma landing; guerrilla war begins

1958

US embargo against Batista

April 1961

Bay of Pigs fails

1960

U.S. covert action plan; nationalisations; Soviet-Cuban economic ties expand

1960s

Moral incentives, mass mobilisation, censorship boundaries, economic experimentation

1967

Che killed in Bolivia

1975

First PCC Congress; Angola intervention begins

1976

New constitution and People’s Power system

1980

Mariel boatlift

1989

Ochoa trial; Eastern European communism begins collpasing

1999-2000

Elián González crisis

2011

Raúl’s economic guidelines

2018

Díaz-Canal becomes president

2019

New constitution

2021

Raúl leaves PCC leadership; Díaz-Canal becomes First Secretary