Following the Japanese attack on...
In 1944, the Western Allies...
World War II left the United States...
In 1952, Colonel Fulgencio Batista...
US–Cuban relations quickly...
Castro's success in Cuba helped...
Outside the Americas, the US had...
In the 1960s and '70s, the British...
In 1979, left-wing Sandinista forces...
The US funded the Nicaraguan Contras...
In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait - the...
To defeat Iraq, the US had based...
