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As we all know, the American Civil War was a major turning point for the Union's relationships with the main powers in Western Europe. Most notably, the restoration of relationships with the UK and the deterioration of relationships with Spain. In no small part because Spain was attempting to...

What if, with a POD of 1830s, the Carlists beat the Liberals, and the Isabella family flees into exile in Britain, while the Carlist king, Carlos de Borbón, now Carlos V, becomes King. Now that the Carlists control Spain, what of her once mighty, colonial empire, now reduced to only Cuba...

Ooc: Batista coup was foiled. Minimal side effects on the rest of the world. I was watching Potential History video about the Cuban low level guerrilla warfare in the late fifties and early sixties against the president Ramon Grau and later under the social democrat one that succeeded him and...

The Eagle and The Phoenix: A Less than Splendid Little War Introduction. (You can skip this if you want to get to the war) The Lead Up to the War Note: I plan to expand this to cover the Cuban revolution in more detail and edit it as needed. The war itself is often regarded to have begun...

As the title asks, in the absence of the Spanish-American War, can Spain win its conflicts in Cuba and the Philippines? In the Philippines the Pact of Biak-na-bato was in place, but things weren't quiet just yet and the pact seems to set up a very temporary peace. IIRC the Cuban War was still...

In 1849, Venezuelan-born adventurer and filibuster Narciso López was seeking military help for an attempt to liberate Cuba from Spanish rule. Of course, I use the term "liberate" rather loosely, since López was a supporter of slavery. Knowing that pro-slavery sentiment was strong in the South...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba_during_World_War_II#Bru_and_Batista According to the end of the second paragraph of this section of the Wikipedia page, at one point Fulgencio Batista suggested to the US to launch a joint US-Latin American invasion of Francoist Spain. It never happened...

What would be the consequences of the Spanish and Americans agreeing to have Luzon(Tagalog Republic) and Cuba as American protectorates and the Americans getting the Pacific territories while the Spanish retain their other territories which are Visayas, Mindanao and Puerto Rico instead of...

Thread moved to Before 1900 in conformance to rules. McP.

Here's a timeline I'm surprised historians on this site haven't brought up how would World War 2 have gone down if America's attempt to keep South America neutral or join the Allies backfired and Brazil joined the Axis Powers

What if, instead of organizing a rag-tag group of Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro, either Eisenhower or Kennedy recognizes the scheme won't work and they shut down the invasion plans? Would Castro still become a Communist and move into the Soviet sphere of influence? How would...

What changes would happen to Cuba? Clearly there would likely be a few for the better. But what?

To preface, I'm not sure if this was the best place to put this or not, so please do move it if it's not. Anywho, I'm hoping the lovely AH.com community would be willing and able to review some mock legislation I wrote up for a pet project of mine. The basic idea, as I've put out a few times on...

Franklin Pierce's major foreign policy goal was to acquire Cuba. His administration drew up the infamous Ostend Manifesto, threatening war with Spain over the island. In 1853 former Mississippi Governor John A. Quitman planned to organize a force of 3,000-4,000 men that would invade Cuba...

Would it be possible for the government of the Confederate States of America to flee the mainland of North America and establish a regime in exile, sort of like the Republic of China IOTL? Obviously the United States would need to occupy some territory off the mainland before the American Civil...

Eddy P. Cuffs Ms Moore's 7th Grade English class My Uncle Bud I recently as talking to my Uncle Bud at a family barbecue, he's a veteran served with the 101st Air Mobile in Cuba from 1966 to 1968, was wounded and discharged as a corporal with a slug of metal in his knee towards the...

The 1960 election could easily have gone the other way had Nixon run a better campaign. If Nixon had narrowly won in 1960, would Kennedy be in a position to redeem himself in 1964 or 1968?

October 16, 1962: You are the President of the United States, and American intelligence reports that the Soviet Union is planting missile silos in Cuba, only ninety miles from US shores. Your response will determine the fate of the world. Any single miscalculation could increase global tensions...

What if, during the latter months of the Cuban Revolution, Ernesto Che Guevara had taken a fatal bullet wound, and did not live to see the Batista regime fall (as it did otl)? How does this affect the shape of Cuban politics and foreign relations over the crucial next few years? Does this...

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy executed Operation Zapata, the brainchild of the Eisenhower Administration, which ultimately achieved the overthrow of Cuban President Fidel Castro and neutralized the Communist threat on the island. Despite fears by many during the initial days of the...