cuba

Let's say a hypothetical scenario where for whatever reason Liberia tries to a military conquest for Sierra Leone during the American Civil War (like 1963) but it wraps up two years after the Civil War ending with British annexing Liberia. With Liberians not wanting to live under the British a...

Re-posting this topic: IOTL, when the US suspended diplomatic relations with the Cuban government under Fidel Castro in 1960 and placed an embargo on it, Canada, usually a staunch US ally in international relations, notably refused to join the US under its Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. In...

A lot of Confederates after the Civil War left the South to go West, Brazil and even Mexico. However what if with a harsher Reconstruction with a clear sign of not backing down there was mass migration leaving to Cuba instead of the mentioned places? How would the United States, Spain and the...

What if the troops of the Grenada People's Revolutionary Government and the Cuban presence in Grenada were considerably more determined and fanatical in their goals thus resulting in higher US causalities? Perhaps Hudson Austin and Fidel Castro felt considerably emotional and inspired to...

Whenever reading about the Spanish-American War, particularly the lead up to it, as in the Philippine Revolution and Cuban War of Independence, where in both nations, the people revolted against colonial rule, and wanted to become independent and overthrow Spanish rule. However, whenever...

I'm thinking about doing a Socialist Confederacy TL and I came up with a idea for it. I just wanted to know your guys' opinion.

Everyone who is reading this should have a general understanding about the Bay of Pigs Invasion, about how a force of anti-Communist Cuban exiles were trained by the Central Intelligence Agency and were sent to topple the regime under Fidel Castro only for it to become a fiasco and the aftermath...

Assume the Black Warrior Affair escalates and it becomes a war. Ostend Manifesto has not been issued but lots of southern Democrats obviously want Cuba. 1) If the US win, would Cuba be annexed as a slave territory? Would Congress vote in favour? 2) Does this change the dynamics leading up to...

what if USA "liberates" all 1763 Spainish colonies? Napoleon was never born and Spanish empire survives with 1763 borders in 1850s and are without civil wars but for that reason they don't enact post occupation reforms and have even less industry. American settlers are countered by brutal...

- Hey there BLC!! - Hello voice of doubt in my head. - What's this? - Urm... just a little side project. - Whatever happened to "War makes for Strange Bedfellows" - Oh it's still alive, don't worry. That's still my priority. I'm still working on the next chapters. - So why this? - Well, the...

Let's say one day, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, due to their common heritage, location, and/or for whatever other reason, form union between each other. What would newly united country look like and what would it be called?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antillean_Confederation This idea had been around since around the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti. What if the 10 Years’ War coincided with the Dominican Restoration War and a Puerto Rican revolt and successfully won and unified as a nation. What would...

I've been thinking about this lately and I'm not sure about the plausibility but let's say Castro identifies as a social democrat and rules with social democratic policies but due to staunch due to his staunch anti us imperialism beliefs aligns with the soviets and like OTL meddles in other...

In the year 1961, The United States of America successfully executed The Bays Of Pigs Invasion on Cuba and Fidel Castro and his brother Raul Castro well as Che Guevara were thrown out of Cuba by some Cuban Exiles. but what if The Bays of Pigs Invasion was failed due to the Cuban Government...

This is a timeline where that covers a defeat of the US on the spanish-american war and what that means to the world as a whole.

On the latter part of May 1898, Makabulos would ally with Luna and would reject Aguinaldo on June 1898 imprisoning Aguinaldo after his arrival as a traitor, the new government, reestablishing the Tagalog republic which was betrayed by Aguinaldo last year would give the Americans a different...

Eduardo Chibás was a Cuban politician who denounced corruption in the government during the presidencies of Ramón Grau and Carlos Prío, and established a political party called the Orthodox Party. It was a left-wing party that he formed in response to government corruption, and he ran as a...

The Smoking Fish: A Wikibox TL An alternate history of Venezuela, the United States and the world in the 21st century Prologue "When an English voter wants a change in the politics of the conservative government in office, all they have to do is vote for the Labor candidate. The differences...

So, we all know what happened from 1962 to 1969. The JFK administration wanted to discredit Castro's Cuba, and used Operation Northwoods as a false flag operation, staging multiple terrorist attacks and aircraft shootdowns in Florida, and sinking boats full of Cuban refugees throughout 1962...

The immediate aftermath of Spanish-American War saw the US at a crossroads in terms of which colony it desired to take over the most. As well all know, it would be Cuba that was selected over the Philippines by virtue of being closer and therefore easy to control. But what if the Philippines...