WeekInTime Issue 50: Guantanamo

The Republic of Cuba agrees to lease Guantanamo Bay to the U.S. in 1903

The New World had taken center stage. The old powers of Europe looked on in shock as the United States defeated the Spanish Empire, winning new territories in the Caribbean and Pacific. One of the territories involved in the conflict, Cuba, would finally be granted independence. But there were strings attached. This week in time, the Republic of Cuba ag…