List of wars involving Cuba explained

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

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result	President	Prime Minister
López's Expeditions(1850-1851)	Filibusters	Spain	Defeat Defeat of Filibusters, López is executed
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
Negro Rebellion (1912)	Cuba United States	PIC	Government victory Rebellion suppressed
World War I (1917–1918)	France United Kingdom United States Canada Australia New Zealand		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
Sugar Intervention (1917–1922)	Conservatives United States	Liberals	Conservative victory Uprising quelled, US occupation of Cuba
World War II (1941–1945)^[1]	United States United Kingdom France Poland Canada Australia New Zealand Denmark Norway Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg Brazil Mexico Panama Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Dominican Republic Cuba		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
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
Escambray Rebellion (1959–1965)	Castro Regime	Various Insurgents	Government victory Elimination of all insurgents
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		Defeat Expedition fails
Sand War (1963–1964)	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)^[5] Independence of Guinea-Bissau
Bolivian Campaign (1966–1967)	ELN Cuba	United States	Defeat Guerrillas defeated, Che Guevara executed
Machurucuto Incident (1967)	Cuba		Defeat Expedition fails
Yemenite War of 1972 (1972)	Cuba		Indecisive No territorial changes
Yom Kippur War (1973)	Egypt <	-- Egypt, Syria, and Libya all had the same flag in 1972, see Flag of Syria (historical section) and and the current flag was introduced in 1980 --> Iraq Jordan Algeria Morocco Saudi Arabia Cuba	Israel	Defeat Egypt–Israel peace treaty^[6] Israel–Syria Disengagement Agreement
Operation Independence (1975-1977)	ERP Montoneros Cuba^[7] ^[8] ^[9]	Argentina	Defeat
Angolan Civil War (1975–1991)	MPLA SWAPO SWANU Cuba MK	UNITA FNLA FLEC South Africa	Stalemate Three Powers Accord Independence of Namibia
Ethio-Somali War (1977–1978)	Ethiopia Cuba	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	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

Bibliography

• Book: Gleijeses, Piero. Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959–1976 . Chapel Hill, NC . . 2002 . 978-0-807-82647-8 .

See also

• Military interventions of Cuba

Notes and References

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. Web site: Rubén Miró y la invasión de cubanos a Panamá . September 14, 2018 . April 22, 2010 . La Estrella de Panamá . Panama City . Spanish . July 18, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190718094417/http://laestrella.com.pa/opinion/columnistas/ruben-miro-invasion-cubanos-panama/23701606 . dead .
3. Web site: Invasión . https://web.archive.org/web/20080304060111/http://www.redom.com/invasion/prurito.htm . dead . March 4, 2008 . September 14, 2018 . Lora . J. Armando . Spanish .
4. Web site: "Los cubanos son los artífices del fraude electoral en Venezuela". Flores. Victor. September 28, 2013. El País. Ediciones El País. Madrid. Spanish. September 14, 2018.
5. A Guerra - Colonial - do Ultramar - da Libertação, 2nd Season (Portugal 2007, director Joaquim Furtado, RTP)
6. News: How We Used to Do It - American diplomacy in the . Loyola. Mario. 7 October 2013. National Review. 1. 2 December 2013.
7. Enrique Díaz-Araujo. La guerrilla en sus libros. p. 98.
8. Web site: Página/12 :: El país :: Gorriarán Merlo cuenta su versión. 11 May 2016.
9. Web site: Página/12. 23 February 2015.