The Bay of Pigs Invasion

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The Bay of Pigs Invasion

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

Kent Korwatch Dane Wostenberg
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?Who?

1. John F Kennedy
2. Fidel Castro
3. Nikita Khrushchev

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John F Kennedy

• US president elected 1960
• Berlin wall built in the first year of his term
• Assassinated in 1963
• New Frontier program 1961(space exploration)

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Fidel Castro

• Over through the Cuban government 1959
• Became communist leader in 1960
• Still in power today
• First Communist State in
• west

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Nikita Khrushchev

• Russia leader from 1953 to 1964
• Joined communist party in 1918
• Died on Sept. 11, 1971
• Born April 5, 1894
• Denounced Stalin and his
• Methods

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?What?When?Where?

• The Bay of Pigs
• The Cuban Missile Crisis

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The Bay of Pigs

• An unsuccessful attack on Cuba
• Designed to over through the government of Fidel
• April 17th ,1961
• Cuban refugees trained in U.S. Guatemala to fight
  Fidel
• Violated agreements to not interfere in the
  western hemisphere
• CIA advised Kennedy to attack

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The Cuban Missile Crisis

• Oct.16, 1962 photos reveal Soviets building
  missile sights in Cuba
• Options negotiate with Khrushchev, invade Cuba,
  blockade Cuba, bomb missile sights
• U.S. quarantines Cuba
• Russia sends more ships, Khrushchev calls them
  back
• U.S. agrees to remove weapons in Turkey for
  Russian disarmament in Cuba

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Kennedys Map of Cuba
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Aftereffects

• Hot line established from US to Russia
• Limited Test Band Treaty