| During this period the United States instituted various measures to
quiet popular unrest on the island. Stability was accomplished following
the impeachment in 1936 of President Miguel Mariano Gómez by the
senate, which was controlled by Fulgencio Batista.
With the support of Batista, Federico Laredo Brú - the head of
the Cuban army, unofficial dictator of Cuba and now the new president -
began a program of social and economic reform.
Batista won the presidential contest of 1940. In 1940, a new constitution
helped to the lessen Cuba's political tension.
Military vehicles used in the Cuban Revolution
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