Question

short short shortly describe cubas history before the cuban revolution

Answer 1

Cuba was a Spanish colony from Columbus's arrival in 1492, its indigenous peoples decimated and the island turned into a sugar-plantation economy built on African slave labor. Nineteenth-century anti-colonial wars (led by figures like José Martí) culminated in the 1898 Spanish–American War; Spain was ousted and the U.S. occupied Cuba. Cuba became formally independent in 1902 but remained economically and politically dominated by U.S. interests (Platt Amendment) and by sugar elites, with frequent instability and authoritarian rule. The 1930s–50s saw coups and dominant strongmen, and Fulgencio Batista’s 1952 takeover created the repression and corruption that sparked the Cuban Revolution.