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Date July 26, 1953 - January 1, 1959
Location Cienfuegos • Cuba • Guantánamo Bay • Havana • Santiago de Cuba
Participants Cuba • 26th of July Movement • United States Marine Corps
Context Cuban Independence Movement • Platt Amendment • Spanish-American War • World War II • Republic of Cuba

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Fidel Castro
Castro arriving in Havana on January 8, 1959
Spanish-American War
Tomás Estrada Palma
Gerardo Machado y Morales
Fulgencio Batista
Ramón Grau San Martín
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Che Guevara
Fulgencio Batista
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Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro
political leader of Cuba
Raúl Castro
Raúl Castro
Cuban head of state
Che Guevara
Che Guevara
Argentine-Cuban revolutionary
Fulgencio Batista
Fulgencio Batista
Cuban dictator

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