Cuba

• Capital: Havana
• Major Cities
  • Holguin
  • Guantanamo
• Major Geographical Features
  • Gulf of Mexico
  • Straits of Florida
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Cayman Trench
  • Isla de la Juventud
  • Caribbean Sea
  • Sierra Maestra
• Official Name: Republic of Cuba
• Religion: Roman Catholic
• Language: Spanish
• 1898: Spain cedes Cuba to the Untied States at the end of the Spanish-American War
• 1959: Fidel Castro overthrows the dictatorship of Batista, instituting communism
• 1961: United States invades Cuba to oust Castro in the Bay of Pigs Invasion but were defeated by Castro
• 1962: USSR attempts to put nuclear missiles in Cuba but the United States compromises to have the missile returned to the Soviet Union (known as the Cuban Missile Crisis)
• 2008: Fidel Castro resigns as leader of Cuba, his brother Raul takes over
• Independence: 1902 from United States administration
• Government: communist state
• Currency: Cuban peso
• Pennsylvania is slightly larger than Cuba
• Literacy: 99.8%
• Climate: Tropical
• Westernmost of the Greater Antilles
• Largest nation in the Caribbean
• Many Cubans immigrate to the United States to escape the communist regime