As said above, the Cubans deploying in the middle east would be an massive No No for the Nixon administration. It is now far more difficult for Siria and Egypt to achieve the surprise they did in OTL and I suspect the White House would had sold an lot of weapons to Israel
The POD was in 1941, by that point the Basque Govermnet had been in control of Bizkaia and parts of Gipuzkoa and Araba until the fall of Bilbao, it (and the PNV) had close relations with the USA Goverment and the State Department (through people like Galindez* mentioned before) it dosent mean...
Very few due to petrol being scarce. But in 1914 any number of trucks (with an strategic reserve of petrol to back them) would have been invaluable
http://www.kaiserscross.com/76001/85601.html
Open the army to the middle class aspiring officers that OTL went to the Navy. Reduce significantly the size of the said Navy (and so preventing the naval race with the UK) with the founds and manpower liberated form additional army corps and increase the number of trucks. And yes form...
So your take is that the people of Checoslovaquia, Hungary, East Germany or Poland would be convinced that the USSR was defending itself while invading Western Europe? And that after 1956 Budapest or 1968 Praga?