CHILE AND CUBA

  • Havana becomes the capital of Cuba

  • Havana Is Occupied

  • Treaty of Paris

  • The United States attempts to purchase Cuba from Spain

  • Period: to

    Cuban Nationalism rises → Ten years war

  • US owns majority of Cuba’s sugar mills

  • Spanish American War

  • Republic of Cuba is declared

  • Cuba becomes independent

  • Period: to

    U.S. occupies Cuba after a rebellion led by Jose Miguel Gomez

  • Period: to

    U.S. occupies Cuba after a rebellion led by Jose Miguel Gomez

  • Jose Miguel Gomez becomes president

  • The U.S returned back to Cuba to help put down black protests that were against discrimination. The “Negro Rebellion.”

  • Gerardo Machado is overthrown in a coup

    led by Sergeant Fulgencio Batista.
  • The U.S. abandons its right to intervene in Cuban internal affairs

  • The Constitution established by a national assembly

  • General Fulgencio Batista is elected Cuba’s 14th president.

  • Period: to

    Batista himself becomes President

  • Columbus Arrives in Cuba

  • Period: to

    A return to Democracy

    corruption dominates every branch of the government.
  • Period: to

    Senator Allende

    In 1945, Allende became senator for the Valdivia, Llanquihue, Chiloé, Aisén and Magallanes provinces
    1953 became Senator for Tarapacá and Antofagasta
    1961 for Aconcagua and Valparaíso
    Once more for Chiloé, Aisén and Magallanes in 1969.
    He became president of the Chilean Senate in 1966.
  • Orthodox Party (Partido del Pueblo Cubano; Cuban Peoples Party)

    RISE IN OPPOSITION TO BATISTA
  • Period: to

    FULGENCIO BATISTA:

  • EMERGENCE OF FIDEL CASTRO

  • THE MONCADA ASSAULT

  • MONCADA ASSAULT AND THE 26TH OF JULY MOVEMENT

  • General Alfredo Stroessner took control of Paraguay

  • THE GRANMA EXPEDITION

  • Period: to

    REBELS IN THE SEIRRA MAESTRA MOUNTAINS

  • PACT OF CARACAS

  • OPERACION VERANO (SUMMER CAMPAIGN)

  • CAMILO CIENFUEGOS

    died
  • BATISTA FLEES

  • President Urrutia resigned

  • Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba

  • First Agrarian Reform Act

  • Period: to

    THE CONSOLIDATION

  • Period: to

    REFORMS

  • Federation of Cuban Women (FMC, Federación de Mujeres Cubanas)

  • Economic Reform

  • Trade Agreement w/ Russia

    Bought oil from the Soviet Union
  • economic ties between Cuba and the US were severed

  • Period: to

    Operation Condor

  • Period: to

    Fidel Castro’s Reign

  • the year of education

  • THE BAY OF PIGS INVASION

  • Committees for the Defense of the Revolution

  • Year of Education

  • U.S. broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba

  • Castro formally declared Cuba as a socialist state

  • an end to democratic elections was announced

  • THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

  • Cuba changes the currency

  • 2nd Agrarian reform

  • Second Agrarian Reform Law

  • The Brazilian military overthrew the president João Goulart

  • ERNESTO “CHE” GUEVARA

    killed in
  • THE REVOLUTIONARY OFFENSIVE

  • government creates reforms to make it easier for women to work

  • THE YEAR OF TEN MILLION

  • Family Code of 1975 gives men and women equal rights

  • Period: to

    The Chicago Boys

  • Period: to

    Salvador Allende

    the president of Chile
  • General Hugo Banzer took power in Bolivia

    a series of coups.
  • Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte

    appointed General Chief of Staff of the Army.
  • A civic-military dictatorship seized power in Uruguay

  • Forces loyal to General Augusto Pinochet bombed the presidential palace in Chile (La Moneda) overthrowing democratically

    elected president Salvador Allende
  • UN passed a resolution

  • Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte

    proclaims himself "Supreme Chief of the Nation" (de
    facto provisional president)
  • Pinochet

    his title officially changes to "President"
  • Operation Colombo

  • Pinochet’s Economic Policy

  • Period: to

    The dictatorships and their intelligence services were responsible for tens of thousands of killed and missing people

  • Period: to

    CUBAN INVOLVEMENT IN THE ANGOLAN CIVIL WAR

  • Constitution

    Replacement of civil law with socialist law
    Marxism-Leninism recognized as the state ideology
    Communist party recognized as the only political party
    Council of Ministers
  • A military junta headed by General Jorge Rafael Videla seized power in Argentina

  • A declassified CIA document

  • HAYDEE SANTAMARIA

    Commits suicide
  • CELIA SANCHEZ

    Occupies several government positions until her death in
  • MARIEL BOAT LIFT

  • President Pinochet

    Pinochet organized a plebiscite to ratify a new constitution,
    replacing the 1925 Constitution
  • female labor force doubled

    than what it was in 1960
  • RECTIFICATION CAMPAIGN

  • Transition to Democracy

    Political advertising was legalized
  • The transition to Democracy

  • Pinochet left the presidency

    transferred power to the new democratically elected president
  • SPECIAL PERIOD

  • HELMS-BURTON ACT

  • The End of Pinochet

  • The Chilean government admitted a possibility

    Pablo Neruda, Nobel-Prize winning poet, may have been assassinated –no conclusive evidence
  • Castro death