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Bay of Pigs
• April 1961
• Started 3 months into John F. Kennedy’s
presidency
• Action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to
invade southern Cuba
• They were supported and encouraged by
the US government, in an attempt to
overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel
Castro
Bay of Pigs
• The plan was first put into play by President
Eisenhower
• The main objective was “ The purpose of the
program outlined herein is to bring about the
replacement of the Castro regime with one more
devoted to the true interests of the Cuban people
and more acceptable to the U.S. in such a manner to
avoid any appearance of U.S. intervention.”
• A budget of 13 million dollars was given to the CIA to
train Cuban exiles
• The invasion failed and Castro even gain popularity
Cuban Missile Crisis
• October 1962
• This was one of the closest times in history we came to
Nuclear War
• Conflict was Cuba & the Soviet Union vs. the USA
• The Soviet Union began to secretly build bases in Cuba
with the capabilities of firing nuclear missiles to the U.S.
• The action was caused by the fact that the U.S. had 100
land based missiles in Turkey
Cuban Missile Crisis
• On October 14, 1962, a United States Air Force U-2 plane
on a photoreconnaissance mission captured photographic
proof of Soviet missile bases under construction in Cuba
• The United States considered attacking Cuba via air and
sea, but decided on a military blockade instead
• The US announced that it would not permit offensive
weapons to be delivered to Cuba and demanded that the
Soviets dismantle the missile bases already under
construction or completed in Cuba
• The U.S. expected military confrontation
Cuban Missile Crisis
• The Soviets publicly balked at the US demands,
but in secret back-channel communications
initiated a proposal to resolve the crisis.
• Only two weeks after the agreement, the
Soviets had removed the missile systems and
their support equipment, loading them onto
eight Soviet ships, the Soviet Il-28 bombers were
loaded onto three Soviet ships and shipped back
to Russia
• A secret phone line was created between U.S.
and USSR