Marked Santiago de Cuba

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Cuban Revolution

Fidel Castro’s rebels overthrew the dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959. Cuba became a communist state allied to the Soviet Union, survived the Bay of Pigs invasion and was at the centre of the missile crisis of 1962.

Place
Santiago de Cuba · The Sierra Maestra · Havana · The Bay of PigsThe Americas
Laid out as
A revolutionHow things were before, the moment it turned, and how things were after.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

BeforeA dictatorship close to the United States.

  1. IBatista’s Cuba
  2. IIMoncada
  3. IIIThe Sierra Maestra
  4. IV1959
  5. VThe Bay of Pigs
  6. VIThe missile crisis

AfterA communist state allied to the Soviet Union.

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Fidel Castro
  • Che Guevara
  • Celia Sánchez
  • Fulgencio Batista

Objects

  • The Granma yacht

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1953 to 1962. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?