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 invasions of Cuba
(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
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
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
Guerilla 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
^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. 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.
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