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the bay of pigs
President Eisenhower gave the CIA permission to secretly train Cuban exiles for an invasion of cuba. The CIA and the Exiles thought it would trigger a mass uprising to throw castro. President Kennedy learned about the plan only nine days after gaining office. With having doubts, president Kennedy approved of the plan. -
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Bay of Pigs and Cuban missile crisis
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Overthrow Castro
April 17, 1961 it was the uprising that would overthrow Castro. 1,500 Cubans landed on at the Bay of Pigs but nothing went to plan, and air strike failed to knock out Cuban air force. CIA reported that it had succeeded. Then they face 25,000 Cuban troops backed up by the soviet tanks and jets. The invaders were killed or imprisoned. This made the relationship between these two countries worsen -
summer of 1962
During the summer of 1962, there was an increase of soviet weapons to cuba. Nuclear weapons were also transported to cuba as well. Kennedy responded to this by warning cuba that the US would not tolerate offensive nuclear weapons in cuba. On October 14th, photographs taken by American spy planes revealed that soviet missle bases were in cuba—and some contained missiles ready to launch. These missiles could reach cities in the US in minutes. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviet missile bases in Cuba were revealed by photographs taken by American planes. Some bases contained missiles that were ready to launch. It would only take minutes for the missiles to reach the U.S. After spotting the missiles in Cuba, America did not trust the Soviet Union to not launch an attack. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Kennedy told the nation about the missile sites in Cuba and what he planned to do about removing them. He made it clear that if a missile attack came from Cuba then we would launch an all-out attack on the Soviet Union. Kennedy planned to use a naval blockade to keep the Soviet Union from transporting more missiles to Cuba. After the announcement people saw that two powers could go to war and that a nuclear war was possible causing other world power to try and quickly develop stronger weapons. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Kennedy implement a naval Quarantine of Cuba, blocking soviet ships from reaching the island and 100,000 troops waited for the largest invasion force ever assembled. We were thinking about invading Cuba if they did not get rid of those missiles. The soviets did not like this. -
Soviet ships approach Cuba
On October 25th 1962, soviet ships approaching Cuba came to a halt. These ships were carrying soviet nuclear weapons that would end up being pointed at the US during the Cuban missile crisis. Putting a halt to these ships would help America greatly by slowing down Cuba and the Soviet Union in the Cuban missile crisis. -
End of Cuban Missile Crisis
This was the end of the Cuban missile crisis but Kennedy and Khrushchev to the heat. It damage Khrushchev’s prestige in the USSR and the world. People criticized Kennedy for practicing brinkmanship some people believes he passed up on a chance to invade Cuba. Soviets did not like us getting rid of the missile, but America was also unhappy since we could not invade Cuba and overthrow Castro.
