Over the course of this unit, we’ve learned about different aspects of the Cuban revolution, which ranges from the causes of the revolution to its consequences; from the important people involved to the important dates and events.

Below displays the eBook that I made about the Cuban Revolution. For this task, we were asked to write three journal entries that explains the causes and effects of the Revolution that we picked to study about (I picked the Cuban Revolution) with a balanced amount of narrative and historical details. It should also includes the relevant changes and continuities.

Context of the Cuban Revolution:

On December 10, 1898, the Treaty of Paris was signed by the United States and Spain to formally end the Spanish-American War. Even though Cuba was able to gain independence from Spain under this treaty, it was also then occupied by the U.S. for three years. However, being one of the world’s leading sugar supplier, Cuba had been able to establish a successful trade relationship with the United States. On the other hand, the U.S. had also been the most powerful supporter of the former president of Cuban, Fulgencio Batista.

Batista was a dictator, who took over the Cuban government by force, and a corrupted leader, who catered to the wealthy and caused inequality. He failed to advance the economic welfare of the Cuban people but, instead, brought more misery to their lives. During his regime, the wealthy were the only ones who were contend with his governance; since the poor wanted more support and jobs, while the middle class were upset with inflation. The bad governance and peasants’ dissatisfactions then slowly led to the Cuban Revolution with the rise of the rebel group M-26-7.