List of wars involving Cuba

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

Contents

  Cuba defeat
  Cuba victory
  Another result (e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result, status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive)
ConflictCombatant 1Combatant 2ResultPresidentPrime Minister
López's Expeditions

(1850-1851)

Flag of Cuba sky blue.svg Filibusters Flag of Spain (1785-1873, 1875-1931).svg  Spain Defeat
  • Defeat of Filibusters, López is executed
None
None
Ten Years' War
(1868–1878)
Cespedes flag.svg Cuban Liberation Army Flag of Spain (1785-1873, 1875-1931).svg  Spain Defeat
Little War
(1879–1880)
Flag of Cuba sky blue.svg Cuban Liberation Army Flag of Spain (1785-1873, 1875-1931).svg  Spain Defeat
  • Rebel defeat
Cuban War of Independence
(1895–1898)
Flag of Cuba sky blue.svg Cuban Liberation Army
Flag of the United States (1896-1908).svg  United States
Flag of Spain (1785-1873, 1875-1931).svg  Spain Victory
  • Cuban independence from Spain
Cuban Pacification
(1906)
Flag of Cuba (sky blue).svg Conservatives Flag of Cuba (sky blue).svg Liberals Liberal victory
  • Subsequent US occupation of Cuba
Negro Rebellion
(1912)
Flag of Cuba (sky blue).svg  Cuba
Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States
Flag of Cuba (sky blue).svg PIC Government victory
  • Rebellion suppressed
World War I
(1917–1918)
Flag of France (1794-1815, 1830-1958).svg  France
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States
Flag of Italy (1861-1946) crowned.svg  Italy
Merchant flag of Japan (1870).svg  Japan
Flag of the Republic of China 1912-1928.svg  China
Canadian Red Ensign (1868-1921).svg  Canada
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
British Raj Red Ensign.svg  India
Red Ensign of South Africa (1912-1951).svg  South Africa
State Flag of Serbia (1882-1918).svg  Serbia
Flag of Montenegro (1905-1918).svg  Montenegro
Flag of Romania.svg  Romania
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
Flag of Greece (1822-1978).svg  Greece
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal
Flag of Brazil (1889-1960).svg  Brazil
Flag of Cuba (sky blue).svg  Cuba
Flag of Panama.svg  Panama
Flag of Guatemala.svg  Guatemala
Flag of Nicaragua (1908-1971).svg  Nicaragua
Flag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica
Flag of Honduras (1898-1949).svg  Honduras
Flag of the German Empire.svg  Germany
Flag of Austria-Hungary (1867-1918).svg  Austria-Hungary
Flag of the Ottoman Empire (1844-1922).svg  Ottoman Empire
Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria
Victory
Sugar Intervention
(1917–1922)
Flag of Cuba (sky blue).svg Conservatives
Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States
Flag of Cuba (sky blue).svg Liberals Conservative victory
  • Uprising quelled, US occupation of Cuba
World War II
(1941–1945) [1]
Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg  United States
Flag of the USSR (1936-1955).svg  Soviet Union
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
Flag of the Republic of China.svg  China
Flag of France (1794-1815, 1830-1958).svg  France
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
Canadian Red Ensign (1921-1957).svg  Canada
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
British Raj Red Ensign.svg  India
Flag of South Africa (1928-1982).svg  South Africa
Yugoslav Partisans flag 1945.svg  Yugoslavia
Flag of Greece (1822-1978).svg  Greece
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czechoslovakia
Flag of Brazil (1889-1960).svg  Brazil
Flag of Mexico (1934-1968).svg  Mexico
Flag of Panama.svg  Panama
Flag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica
Flag of El Salvador.svg  El Salvador
Flag of Guatemala.svg  Guatemala
Flag of Honduras (1898-1949).svg  Honduras
Flag of Nicaragua (1908-1971).svg  Nicaragua
Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Dominican Republic
Flag of Cuba (sky blue).svg  Cuba
Flag of Germany (1935-1945).svg  Germany
Merchant flag of Japan (1870).svg  Japan
Flag of Italy (1861-1946) crowned.svg  Italy
Flag of Hungary (1915-1918, 1919-1946).svg  Hungary
Flag of Romania.svg  Romania
Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria
Flag of Independent State of Croatia.svg  Croatia
Flag of First Slovak Republic 1939-1945.svg  Slovakia
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland
Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand
Flag of Manchukuo.svg  Manchukuo
Flag of the Mengjiang.svg  Mengjiang
Victory
Cuban Revolution
(1953–1959)
Flag of Cuba (sky blue).svg Batista Regime M-26-7.svg M-26-7

Flag of the Revolutionary Directorate of 13 March.png Student Revolutionary Directorate

Flag of the Revolutionary Directorate.svg Second National Front of Escambray

Infobox PSP.png Popular Socialist Party

Regime change
Escambray Rebellion
(1959–1965)
Flag of Cuba.svg Castro Regime Flag of Cuba (sky blue).svg Various InsurgentsGovernment victory
  • Elimination of all insurgents
Invasion of Panama [2]
(1959)
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba Flag of Panama.svg  Panama Defeat
  • Expedition fails
Invasion of the Dominican Republic [3]
(1959)
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Dominican Republic Defeat
  • Expedition fails
Bay of Pigs Invasion
(1961)
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba Flag of Brigade 2506.svg Brigade 2506
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Flag of Cuba (sky blue).svg Cuban DRF
Victory
  • The invasion was defeated
Invasion of Venezuela [4]
(1963)
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba Flag of Venezuela (1954-2006).svg  Venezuela Defeat
  • Expedition fails
Sand War
(1963–1964) [5]
Flag of Algeria.svg  Algeria
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba
Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco Stalemate
  • No territorial changes were made
Congo Crisis
(1964)
Red flag.svg Simbas
Red flag.svg PSA
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba
Flag of the Republic of the Congo (Leopoldville) (1960-1963).svg Congo-Léopoldville
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
Defeat
  • Cuban withdrawal from the Congo
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence
(1964–1974)
Flag of PAIGC.svg PAIGC
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal Stalemate(political victory) [6]
Bolivian Campaign
(1966–1967)
Red flag.svg ELN
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba
Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg  Bolivia
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Defeat
Machurucuto Incident
(1967)
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba Flag of Venezuela (1954-2006).svg  Venezuela Defeat
  • Expedition fails
Yemenite War of 1972
(1972)
Flag of South Yemen.svg  South Yemen
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba
Flag of North Yemen.svg  North Yemen Indecisive
  • No territorial changes
Yom Kippur War
(1973)
Flag of Egypt (1972-1984).svg  Egypt
Flag of Syria (1972-1980).svg  Syria
Flag of Iraq (1963-1991); Flag of Syria (1963-1972).svg Iraq
Flag of Jordan.svg  Jordan
Flag of Algeria.svg  Algeria
Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba
Flag of Israel.svg  Israel Defeat
Operation Independence
(1975-1977)
Bandera del ERP.svg ERP
Flag of Montoneros.svg Montoneros
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba [8] [9] [10]
Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina Defeat
Angolan Civil War
(1975–1991)
Movimento Popular de Libertacao de Angola (bandeira).svg MPLA
Flag of South-West Africa People's Organisation.svg SWAPO
Flag of South West African National Union.svg SWANU
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba
African National Congress Flag.svg MK
Flag of UNITA.svg UNITA
Bandeira da FNLA.svg FNLA
Flag of Cabinda.svg FLEC
Flag of South Africa (1928-1982).svg  South Africa
Flag of Zaire (1971-1997).svg  Zaire
Stalemate
Ethio-Somali War
(1977–1978)
Flag of Ethiopia (1975-1987).svg Ethiopia
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba
Flag of South Yemen.svg  South Yemen
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union
Flag of Somalia.svg Somalia
Flag of the Western Somali Liberation Front.svg WSLF
Victory
  • Somali withdrawal from the Ethio-Somali War
Ethiopian Civil War
(1977–1991)
Flag of Ethiopia (1987-1991).svg Ethiopia
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba
EPRP
Flag of the Tigray Region.svg TPLF
Flag of Ethiopia (1987-1991).svg MEISON
Flag of the Amhara Region.svg ANDM
Flag of Ethiopia (1897-1936; 1941-1974).svg EDUP
Defeat
  • Fall of the Communist Mengistu government, installation of TPLF-led transitional government
Eritrean War of Independence
(1977–1991)
Flag of Ethiopia (1987-1991).svg Ethiopia
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba
Flag of South Yemen.svg  South Yemen
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union
Flag of Eritrea (1952-1961).svg ELF
Flag of the EPLF.svg EPLF
Defeat
  • Eritrean independence from Ethiopia
Invasion of Grenada
(1983)
Flag of Grenada.svg Grenada
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Flag of Grenada.svg Grenadian Opposition
Flag of Barbados.svg  Barbados
Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica
Flag of Antigua and Barbuda.svg  Antigua and Barbuda
Flag of Dominica 1981.svg  Dominica
Flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis.svg  Saint Kitts and Nevis
Flag of Saint Lucia (1979-2002).svg  Saint Lucia
Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1979-1985).svg  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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. Archived from the original on July 18, 2019. 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.
  8. Enrique Díaz-Araujo. La guerrilla en sus libros. p. 98.
  9. "Página/12 :: El país :: Gorriarán Merlo cuenta su versión" . Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  10. "Página/12" . Retrieved 23 February 2015.

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