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Cuban Revolution

1953–1959 Caribbean Status: ended Casualties: ~5,000

Castro's guerrillas from the Sierra Maestra took Havana 1 January 1959. The Bay of Pigs invasion (1961) and Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) followed within four years; Cuba remained a Cold War flashpoint for thirty more.

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Belligerents

  • 26th of July Movement (Castro, Guevara)
  • Batista regime

Casualties

~5,000

From World at War, an interactive atlas by Jairus Pereira. Figures are approximate, drawn from Wikipedia, UCDP, ACLED and academic sources — a design artefact, not an authoritative register. Contact.