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)
Cuba Conservatives Cuba Liberals Liberal victory
  • Subsequent US occupation of Cuba
Tomás Estrada Palma
Negro Rebellion
(1912)
 Cuba
 United States
Cuba PIC Government victory
  • Rebellion suppressed
José Miguel Gómez
Sugar Intervention
(19171922)
Cuba Conservatives
 United States
Cuba 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)
Cuba Batista regime M-26-7 Regime change
Andrés Domingo
Escambray Rebellion
(19591965)
Cuba Castro regime Cuba Various insurgents Government victory
  • Elimination of all insurgents
Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado
Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs Invasion
(1961)
 Cuba United States
Cuba Brigade 2506
Victory
  • The invasion was defeated
Sand War
(19631964)[2]
 Algeria
 Cuba
 Morocco Stalemate
  • No territorial changes were made
Simba Rebellion
(1964)
Simba Maoists
 Cuba
Democratic Republic of the Congo Congo-Léopoldville
 Belgium
Defeat
  • Cuban withdrawal from the Congo
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence
(19641974)
PAIGC
 Cuba
 Portugal Stalemate (political victory)[3]
Ñancahuazú Guerrilla
(19661967)
ELN
 Cuba
 Bolivia
United States
Defeat
Yom Kippur War
(1973)
 Egypt
 Syria
Iraq Iraq
 Jordan
 Algeria
Morocco Morocco
 Saudi Arabia
 Cuba
 Israel Defeat
Angolan Civil War
(19751991)
MPLA
SWAPO
SWANU
 Cuba
MK
UNITA
FNLA
FLEC
 South Africa
 Zaire
Stalemate
Fidel Castro
Ogaden War
(19771978)
Ethiopia
 Cuba
 South Yemen
 Soviet Union
Somalia Somalia
WSLF
Victory
  • Somali withdrawal from Ogaden
Ethiopian Civil War
(19771991)
Ethiopia Ethiopia
 Cuba
EPRP
TPLF
Ethiopia MEISON
ANDM
Ethiopia EDUP
Defeat
  • Fall of the Communist Mengistu government, installation of TPLF-led transitional government
Eritrean War of Independence
(19771991)
Ethiopia Ethiopia
 Cuba
 South Yemen
 Soviet Union
ELF
EPLF
Defeat
  • Eritrean independence from Ethiopia
Invasion of Grenada
(1983)
Grenada Grenada
 Cuba
United States Defeat
  • American occupation of Grenada
Yemeni Civil War
(1994)
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen)
Supported by:
 Saudi Arabia[5]
 Oman[6]
 Lebanon[7]:27
Iraq[7]:82
Libya[7]:86
 Kuwait[5]
 Bahrain[8]
 UAE[8]
 Cuba[7]:86
 North Korea[7]:86
Yemen Republic of Yemen
Supported by:
 United States[9]
 Jordan[7]:85
 Qatar[7]
 Egypt[7]:27
 Sudan[7]:86
 Iran[7]:87
Defeat (limited involvement)

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. Gleijeses 2002, p. 44.
  3. A Guerra - Colonial - do Ultramar - da Libertação, 2nd Season (Portugal 2007, director Joaquim Furtado, RTP)
  4. Loyola, Mario (7 October 2013). "How We Used to Do It - American diplomacy in the". National Review. p. 1. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  5. 1 2 Korea Economic Research Institute (South Korea) (27 November 2002). Constitutional Handbook on Korean Unification, Volume 1. 길잡이미디어. p. 703. ISBN 8980312636. Kuwait and Saudi Arabia started to support this secessionist movement until reconciliation with President Salih
  6. Whelan, John (6 August 1999). "Oman in 1994". www.britannica.com. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2 April 2017. During the Yemeni civil war, from May 5 to July 7, Oman urged other Persian Gulf states to recognize the breakaway southern republic.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Jamal S. al-Suwaidi, ed. (1995). The Yemeni War of 1994: Causes and Consequences. Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research. ISBN 0863563007.
  8. 1 2 Al-Muslimi, Farea (5 January 2016). "A History of Missed Opportunities: Yemen and the GCC". Carnegie Middle East Center. Retrieved 2 April 2017. All GCC member states, with the exception of Qatar, would offer financial and political support to the secessionists, although Saleh soon gained the upper hand and won the war.
  9. Embassy of Yemen - Yemeni-American relations, "[In mid-nineties...] Washington demonstrated favorable intentions concerning Yemen. That became evident when the U.S. fully supported the Yemeni unity against the failed Separatist attempt in the summer of 1994."

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