Answer:
Cuba and the United States have had a very close relationship ever since these two countries were born. This is obviously because these two countries are close. Havana, the capital of Cuba, is only around 200 miles away from Miami.
When Cuba was part of the Spanish Empire, former president James Monroe told Congress that the United States should buy Cuba from Spain, and if Spain refused, that the United States should invade the island. This did not happen but decades later, when the Cuban people were fighting for independence from Spain, the United States step in and helped the Cubans.
Unfortunately, the U.S. did not give full independence to Cuba, and kept the island under indirect power, until Fidel Castro overthrew the former government.
Fide Castro made Cuba a communist nation, a friend of the Soviet Union. Cuba made a living by selling Sugar to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, and Cuba went through famine and extreme poverty for a few years.
In conclusion, Cuba and the United States have had a complicated relationship, especially in the twentieth century.
