Republic of Cuba

State · 1905–1959 CE · at its largest around 1926 CE

Cuba as an independent republic after the end of American military occupation in 1902, constrained for decades by the Platt Amendment. The period ended when Fulgencio Batista's regime fell to Fidel Castro's revolutionaries in 1959.

On its lands while it lasted

Fidel Castro (1926 CE – 2016 CE): Cuban revolutionary who led the overthrow of Batista and ruled Cuba as a one-party communist state from 1959 to 2008.
Che Guevara (1928 CE – 1967 CE): Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary and a leader of the Cuban Revolution; captured and executed in Bolivia in 1967.
Cuban Revolution (1953–1959 CE): Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement fought a guerrilla war from the Sierra Maestra and overthrew the dictator Fulgencio Batista in January 1959.