List of wars involving Cuba

This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Cuba.

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result President Prime Minister
Ten Years' War
(18681878)
Cuba  Spain Defeat
None
None
Little War
(18791880)
Cuba  Spain Defeat
  • Rebel defeat
Cuban War of Independence
(18951898)
Cuba
 United States
 Spain Victory
  • Cuban independence from Spain
Cuban Pacification
(1906)
Conservatives Liberals Liberal victory
  • Subsequent US occupation of Cuba
Tomás Estrada Palma
Negro Rebellion
(1912)
Republic of Cuba
 United States
PIC Government victory
  • Rebellion suppressed
José Miguel Gómez
Sugar Intervention
(19171922)
Conservatives
 United States
Liberals Conservative victory
  • Uprising quelled, US occupation of Cuba
Mario García Menocal
World War II
(19411945)[1]
 Soviet Union
 United States
 United Kingdom
 France
 Poland
 Yugoslavia
 Greece
 Denmark
 Norway
 Netherlands
 Belgium
 Luxembourg
 Czechoslovakia
 South Africa
 Australia
 Canada
 New Zealand
 Brazil
 Mexico
Cuba
 Germany
 Italy
 Hungary
 Romania
 Bulgaria
 Croatia
 Slovakia
 Japan
Victory
Fulgencio Batista
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas
Cuban Revolution
(19531959)
Batista regime M-26-7 Regime change
Andrés Domingo
Escambray Rebellion
(19591965)
Castro regime Various insurgents Government victory
  • Elimination of all insurgents
Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado
Fidel Castro
Invasion of Panama[2]
(1959)
 Cuba  Panama Defeat
  • Expedition fails
Invasion of the Dominican Republic[3]
(1959)
 Cuba  Dominican Republic Defeat
  • Expedition fails
Bay of Pigs Invasion
(1961)
 Cuba United States
Brigade 2506
Victory
  • The invasion was defeated
Invasion of Venezuela[4]
(1963)
 Cuba  Venezuela Defeat
  • Expedition fails
Sand War
(19631964)[5]
 Algeria
 Cuba
 Morocco Stalemate
  • No territorial changes were made
Congo Crisis
(1964)
Simbas
PSA
 Cuba
Congo-Léopoldville
 Belgium
Defeat
  • Cuban withdrawal from the Congo
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence
(19641974)
PAIGC
 Cuba
 Portugal Stalemate (political victory)[6]
Ñancahuazú Guerrilla
(19661967)
ELN
 Cuba
 Bolivia
United States
Defeat
Machurucuto Incident
(1967)
 Cuba  Venezuela Defeat
  • Expedition fails
Yemenite War of 1972
(1972)
 South Yemen
 Cuba
 North Yemen Indecisive
  • No territorial changes
Yom Kippur War
(1973)
 Egypt
 Syria
Iraq
 Jordan
 Algeria
Morocco
 Saudi Arabia
 Cuba
 Israel Defeat
Angolan Civil War
(19751991)
MPLA
SWAPO
SWANU
 Cuba
MK
UNITA
FNLA
FLEC
 South Africa
 Zaire
Stalemate
Fidel Castro
Ethio-Somali War
(19771978)
Ethiopia
 Cuba
 South Yemen
 Soviet Union
Somalia
WSLF
Victory
  • Somali withdrawal from the Ethio-Somali War
Ethiopian Civil War
(19771991)
Ethiopia
 Cuba
EPRP
TPLF
MEISON
ANDM
EDUP
Defeat
  • Fall of the Communist Mengistu government, installation of TPLF-led transitional government
Eritrean War of Independence
(19771991)
Ethiopia
 Cuba
 South Yemen
 Soviet Union
ELF
EPLF
Defeat
  • Eritrean independence from Ethiopia
Invasion of Grenada
(1983)
Grenada
 Cuba
United States Defeat
  • American occupation of Grenada

Footnotes

  1. Cuba declared war on the Axis powers in December 1941, being one of the first Latin American countries to do so. On 15 May 1943, the Cuban patrol boat CS-13 sank the German submarine U-176.
  2. "Rubén Miró y la invasión de cubanos a Panamá" (in Spanish). Panama City: La Estrella de Panamá. April 22, 2010. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
  3. Lora, J. Armando. "Invasión" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on March 4, 2008. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
  4. Flores, Victor (September 28, 2013). ""Los cubanos son los artífices del fraude electoral en Venezuela"". El País (in Spanish). Madrid: Ediciones El País. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
  5. Gleijeses 2002, p. 44.
  6. A Guerra - Colonial - do Ultramar - da Libertação, 2nd Season (Portugal 2007, director Joaquim Furtado, RTP)
  7. Loyola, Mario (7 October 2013). "How We Used to Do It - American diplomacy in the". National Review. p. 1. Retrieved 2 December 2013.

See also

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