This large island nation has used its precarious position in the Western Hemisphere to influence it heavily. The Pearl of the Antilles has seen all sorts of history in its borders: it was the largest island Columbus landed on, the center for new world slavery, the only communist country in the Western Hemisphere and more all defined different eras of this nation’s past. In the 1900s this nation fought tooth and nail against the US which was the most powerful country in the world at the time. This nation has battled through all and become the one to make it out time and time again. This is Cuba.