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Cuban Revolution
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How Fidel Castro Seized Power: When Did Castro Take Over Cuba?
By January 1959, Batista’s government crumbled under the weight of Castro’s 26th of July Movement. The dictator fled into exile, leaving behind a power vacuum...
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The Forgotten Spark: When Was Spanish American War the Turning Point of Empire?
Yet the timing was anything but accidental. The explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898, provided the pretext, but the real forces had...