Bay of pigs invansion?

Question:describe the events around the bay of pigs invasion and the cuban missle crissis

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Cuba asked for help and the Soviets answered. Cuba allowed the Soviets to put missles aimed at the US on the island. It is only 90 miles from there to Miami, Florida. The US didn't want those missles that close to us so they told the Soviets to get rid of them. The Soviets said if we got rid of the missles in Turkey that were aimed at the Soviet Union, they would remove the missles from Cuba. It was a standoff of brinkmanship. Soviet ships in Guantanamo Bay and US ships watching the Soviets. No one wanted to give in first. But Kennedy worked it out and both backed down at the same time. Tragedy averted.

I don't really know much on the project but I'll tell you what I know.

All I know was a group of people tried to come to Cuba to try to assasinate Castro. Unfortunately, they were humiliated because their plan failed. Now a couple of decades later, Castro is not president anymore; his brother is. It doesn't make that much of a difference to most people now.

VIVA LA RAZA!

The 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful attempted invasion by armed Cuban exiles in southwest Cuba, planned and funded by the United States, in an attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. This action accelerated a rapid deterioration in Cuban-American relations, which was further worsened by the Cuban Missile Crisis the following year.

The invasion is named after the Bay of Pigs, where the landing took place. It is known in Cuba as Invasión de Bahía de Cochinos or Playa Girón. Kennedy was president during this time, but the CIA failed to inform him that the invasion would occur.

edit* Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States of America, the Soviet Union, and Cuba during the Cold War. In Russia, it is termed the "Caribbean Crisis," while in Cuba it is called the "October Crisis." The crisis ranks with the Berlin Blockade as one of the major confrontations of the Cold War, and is often regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to escalating into a nuclear war.

The climax period of the crisis began on October 14, 1962, when United States reconnaissance photographs taken by an American U-2 spy plane revealed missile bases being built in Cuba, and ended two weeks later on October 28, 1962, when President of the United States John F. Kennedy and United Nations Secretary-General U Thant reached an agreement with the Soviets to dismantle the missiles in Cuba in exchange for a no invasion agreement and a secret removal of the Jupiter and Thor missiles in Turkey.

Kennedy, in his first public speech on the crisis, given on October 22, 1962, gave the key warning,

It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union.

This speech included other key policy statements, beginning with:

To halt this offensive buildup, a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated. All ships of any kind bound for Cuba from whatever nation and port will, if found to contain cargoes of offensive weapons, be turned back. This quarantine will be extended, if needed, to other types of cargo and carriers. We are not at this time, however, denying the necessities of life as the Soviets attempted to do in their Berlin blockade of 1948.

He ordered intensified surveillance, and cited cooperation from the foreign ministers of the Organization of American States (OAS). Kennedy "directed the Armed Forces to prepare for any eventualities; and I trust that in the interest of both the Cuban people and the Soviet technicians at the sites, the hazards to all concerned of continuing the threat will be recognized." He called for emergency meetings of the OAS and United Nations Security Council to deal with the matter.

Lou gave a good explanation of the Bay of Pigs invasion, Frosty gave a good explanation of the Cuban missile crisis.

Cuba was the source of Kennedy's greatest and worst moments in foreign affairs, less than two years apart in his three-year presidency. The Bay of Pigs was the worst, both in terms of--three months in the job--his allowing it to go forward and, many would say, in his emasculating the fighters on the ground--Miami Cubans, essentially--by not providing air power of a sort.

Basically, the Miami Cubans went down there, got in boats or came in boats, I don't know, and "invaded" in remote, soupy terrain, the same area that Castro tried much the same tactic less than a decade earlier (he succeeded, but not without setbacks). But, they lost, partially because of the air power support thing, although the mission may have been doomed for other reasons. They were captured and, of course, punished. It was a terrible diplomatic and moral blunder for the United States.

(The Cuban Missile Crisis was Kennedy's greatest foreign affairs moment, but these two events have absolutely nothing to do with each other). Hope this helps.