List of wars involving Cuba

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

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)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result	President	Prime Minister
López's Expeditions (1850-1851)	Filibusters	Spain	Defeat Defeat of Filibusters, López is executed	None	None
Ten Years' War (1868–1878)	Cuban Liberation Army	Spain	Defeat Pact of Zanjón
Little War (1879–1880)	Cuban Liberation Army	Spain	Defeat Rebel defeat
Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898)	Cuban Liberation Army 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)	Cuba United States	PIC	Government victory Rebellion suppressed	José Miguel Gómez
World War I (1917–1918)	France United Kingdom Russia United States Italy Japan China Canada Australia New Zealand India South Africa Serbia Montenegro Romania Belgium Greece Portugal Brazil Cuba Panama Guatemala Nicaragua Costa Rica Honduras	Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire Bulgaria	Victory End of the German, Russian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires Formation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East Transfer of German colonies and regions of the former Ottoman Empire to other powers Establishment of the League of Nations	Mario García Menocal
Sugar Intervention (1917–1922)	Conservatives United States	Liberals	Conservative victory Uprising quelled, US occupation of Cuba	Mario García Menocal
World War II (1941–1945)^[1]	United States Soviet Union United Kingdom China France Poland Canada Australia New Zealand India South Africa Yugoslavia Greece Denmark Norway Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg Czechoslovakia Brazil Mexico Panama Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Dominican Republic Cuba	Germany Japan Italy Hungary Romania Bulgaria Croatia Slovakia Finland Thailand Manchukuo Mengjiang	Victory Collapse of the German Reich Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires Creation of the United Nations Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers Beginning of the Cold War	Fulgencio Batista	Carlos Saladrigas Zayas
Cuban Revolution (1953–1959)	Batista Regime	M-26-7 Student Revolutionary Directorate Second National Front of Escambray Popular Socialist Party	Regime change Beginning of Castro's rule	Fulgencio Batista	Andrés Domingo
Escambray Rebellion (1959–1965)	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	Brigade 2506 United States Cuban DRF	Victory The invasion was defeated
Invasion of Venezuela^[4] (1963)	Cuba	Venezuela	Defeat Expedition fails
Sand War (1963–1964)^[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 (1964–1974)	PAIGC Cuba	Portugal	Stalemate (political victory)^[6] Independence of Guinea-Bissau
Bolivian Campaign (1966–1967)	ELN Cuba	Bolivia United States	Defeat Guerrillas defeated, Che Guevara executed
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 Egypt–Israel peace treaty^[7] Israel–Syria Disengagement Agreement
Operation Independence (1975-1977)	ERP Montoneros Cuba^[8]^[9]^[10]	Argentina	Defeat
Angolan Civil War (1975–1991)	MPLA SWAPO SWANU Cuba MK	UNITA FNLA FLEC South Africa Zaire	Stalemate Three Powers Accord Independence of Namibia	Fidel Castro
Ethio-Somali War (1977–1978)	Ethiopia Cuba South Yemen Soviet Union	Somalia WSLF	Victory Somali withdrawal from the Ethio-Somali War
Ethiopian Civil War (1977–1991)	Ethiopia Cuba	EPRP TPLF MEISON ANDM EDUP	Defeat Fall of the Communist Mengistu government, installation of TPLF-led transitional government
Eritrean War of Independence (1977–1991)	Ethiopia Cuba South Yemen Soviet Union	ELF EPLF	Defeat Eritrean independence from Ethiopia
Invasion of Grenada (1983)	Grenada Cuba	United States Grenadian Opposition Barbados Jamaica Antigua and Barbuda Dominica Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Defeat American occupation of Grenada

Footnotes

^ 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.
^ "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.
^ Lora, J. Armando. "Invasión" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on March 4, 2008. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
^ 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.
^ Gleijeses 2002, p. 44.
^ A Guerra - Colonial - do Ultramar - da Libertação, 2nd Season (Portugal 2007, director Joaquim Furtado, RTP)
^ Loyola, Mario (7 October 2013). "How We Used to Do It - American diplomacy in the". National Review. p. 1. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
^ Enrique Díaz-Araujo. La guerrilla en sus libros. p. 98.
^ "Página/12 :: El país :: Gorriarán Merlo cuenta su versión". Retrieved 11 May 2016.
^ "Página/12". Retrieved 23 February 2015.

Bibliography

Gleijeses, Piero (2002). Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959–1976. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-807-82647-8.

External links

[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.

[Venezuela-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.

[FOOTNOTEGleijeses200244-5] 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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