José Martí Antonio Maceo Teddy Roosevelt’s charge up San Juan Hill The U.S.S. Maine.
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Transcript of José Martí Antonio Maceo Teddy Roosevelt’s charge up San Juan Hill The U.S.S. Maine.
José Martí
Antonio MaceoAntonio Maceo
Teddy Roosevelt’s charge up San Juan Hill
The U.S.S. Maine
May 2, 1902—Independence Declared.
President Estrada Palma
Gerardo Machado y MoralesGerardo Machado y Morales
Matanzas sugar mill
Slaves feeding crushed cane stalks into the sugar mill steam furnaces
Cuban Sugar MillCuban Sugar Mill
La Zafra (Sugar Harvest)La Zafra (Sugar Harvest)
Inside the sugar mill
GamblingGambling
Night ClubsNight Clubs
ProstitutionProstitution
Fulgencio Batista
Fidel Castro
On July 26, 1953, Castro led a small band of rebels against the Moncada army barracks. The attack failed, and most of the 165 attackers were killed or captured and tortured. Castro himself was captured, but the 26 of July Movement was born.
La Moncada
Ernesto “Che” GuevaraErnesto “Che” Guevara
On January 1, 1959, abandoned by his American allies, Batista and his closest aids fled the country. Soon thereafter, Castro enters Havana victoriously.
Bay of Pigs (Bahía de Cochinos)
