• In 1966, Congress passed the Cuban Adjustment Act which allowed Cubans to get green cards after being in the U.S. for two years, later reduced to a single year
• "Wet-foot, dry-foot" allowed only those Cubans who made it to U.S. soil to stay. Those caught at sea were to be turned away.
• 1959: Castro leads a 9,000-strong guerrilla army into Havana, forcing Batista to flee. Castro becomes prime minister.
• 1960: All US businesses in Cuba are nationalized without compensation; US breaks off diplomatic relations with Havana and imposes a trade embargo in response to Castro's reforms.
• 1994: Cuba signs an agreement with the US according to which the US agrees to admit 20,000 Cubans a year in return for Cuba halting the exodus of refugees. 
• 1996: US trade embargo made permanent in response to Cuba's shooting down of two US aircraft operated by Miami-based Cuban exiles.
• Nov 2001: US exports food to Cuba for the first time in more than 40 years after a request from the Cuban government to help it cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Michelle.
• Oct 2003: US President George Bush announces fresh measures designed to hasten the end of communist rule in Cuba, including tightening a travel embargo to the island, cracking down on illegal cash transfers, and a more robust information campaign aimed at Cuba. A new body, the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, is created.
• Nov 8 2008: Barack Obama is elected US president.
  Dec 2008: New poll suggests a majority of Cuban-Americans living in Miami want an end to the US embargo against Cuba.
  April 2009: President Obama lifts restrictions on family travel and remittances to Cuba.
  
  
  1.  How do Cuban-Americans feel about the "wet-foot, dry-foot" policy ending?
  2.  How does "Wet-foot, dry-foot" ending affect the relationship the Cuban community has with other Latin X communities in America?
  3. In comparison to 2008, how many Cuban-Americans want the embargo to end?
  4. How has US-Cuban relations changed since the beginning of Obama's term to the beginning of Trump's?
  5. How do Cubans feel about the sudden influx of US travel?
  6. Is this influx more detrimental or beneficial to Cuba?
  7. Should Obama have ended the "Wet-foot, Dry-foot" policy?
  8.  What circumstances would it take for the US to end the embargo?
  9. How would ending the embargo effect both countries economically?
  10. Will the travel ban ever end in the socio-polotical climate?