Guantánamo

  U.S. Army Appropriation Act (1901)

  U.S. Coast Guard; Operation Able Manner

  U.S. Congress; on Guantánamo detainees and torture; on Haitian refugee issue; Platt Amendment; Resolution ; war resolution to intervene in Cuba

  U.S. Constitution; Haitian refugee issue and; post-9/11 detainee policy and

  U.S.-Cuban relations; aftermath of Spanish-American War; American colonial interests; annexation debate; Bay of Pigs invasion; beginning of U.S. military occupation; Cold War; Constitutional Convention; Cuban Missile Crisis; Cuban refugees; of early to mid nineteenth century; of early twentieth century; Haitian refugee problem; of late nineteenth century; naval base issue; of 1900s–1030s; of 1940s, ; of 1950s–1960s; 1958 kidnapping of U.S. servicemen; of 1970s–1980s; of 1990s, ; Platt Amendment; post-9/11; protection of U.S. property; Spanish-American War; Teller Amendment and; Twenty-sixth of July movement; U.S. support for Batista regime; War of Independence and; water fight

  U.S. Defense Department; post-9/11 detainee operations

  U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS); Haitian Program

  U.S. Marines; African Americans in; 1958 kidnapping of; protection of U.S. property; Spanish-American War

  U.S. Navy; African Americans in; Fleet Training Group; Haitian refugee problem; Kitty Hawk episode; New Navy; of 1900s–1930s; 1958 kidnapping of servicemen; petty crime and torture; post-9/11; prostitution and; racial stratification; Spanish-American War; wives; women in; see also Guantánamo naval base U.S. Supreme Court; Boumediene decision; on Haitian refugee issue; Rasul v. Bush

  Valdez, Julio

  Valiente, Francisco

  Vanderbilt, William K.

  Velázquez de Cuéllar, Diego

  venereal disease

  Vermilya-Brown Co. v. Connell

  Vernon, Edward

  Vietnam War

  Virginia

  Volunteers for National Security (VSN)

  voodoo

  Wagner, Gunther

  Walker, William

  Walls, George H.

  War Crimes Act

  Warner, John

  War of Jenkins’ Ear

  Warsaw Pact

  Washington, Augustine

  Washington, George

  Washington, John

  Washington, Lawrence

  Washington Post

  water fight (1964)

  Webster, Daniel

  Wedgwood, Ruth

  Welles, Gideon

  Welles, Sumner

  Wentworth, Thomas

  West Indian labor

  West Indies; Spanish monopoly

  Weyler, Valeriano

  White, Doug

  Williams, Herbert Pelham

  Willis A. Lee, USS

  Wilson, Woodrow

  Windward Passage

  Windward Point

  wives, naval

  Wollam, Park

  women; git’ mo’ term and; at Guantánamo prison; Islamic law and; maids; naval wives; 1920s-era New Woman; prostitution; shortage of; in U.S. Navy

  Wood, Leonard

  Woodcock, USS

  World War I

  World War II

  Yankee (ship)

  Yateras River; 1964 water fight

  Yee, James

  Yoo, John; Geneva Memo; Torture Memo

  Yucatán

  Zette, Marie

  Zubaydah, Abu

  Zumwalt, Elmo R.

  Copyright © 2011 by Jonathan M. Hansen Map copyright © 2011 by Jeffrey L. Ward

  All rights reserved

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  Designed by Abby Kagan

  eISBN 9780809048977

  First eBook Edition : September 2011

  First edition, 2011

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Hansen, Jonathan M.

  Guantánamo : an American history / Jonathan M. Hansen.—1st ed.

  p. cm.

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  1. Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba)—History. 2. Guantánamo Bay (Cuba)—

  History. 3. Americans—Cuba—Guantánamo Bay—History. 4. United States—Foreign relations—Cuba. 5. Cuba—Foreign relations—United States. I. Title.

  VA68.G8H36 2011

  359.7097291’67—dc22

  2011008442