Bay of Pigs Timeline

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  • Fidel Castro takes control of Cuba

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    Bay of Pigs Timeline

  • Dwight Eisenhower approves a covert plan of action against Cuba and Fidel Castro

  • CIA begins actively recruiting anti-Castro Cubans for training

  • Eisenhower approves a $13 million dollar budget for the takeover

  • Fidel Castro and Cuba publically alligns itself with the Soviet Union

  • President Eisenhower oficially severs ties with Cuba

  • President Kennedy ofiically approves a final plan for the invasion

  • Kennedy publically promises that the United States will not make any attempts to overthrow Cuba

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion occurs

    In Cuba, exiles attempt to overthrow the Castro government. The rebellion only lasts for seventy-two hours before Castro and his Cuban army squash the movement. Cuba takes over a thousand prisoners.

  • Kennedy denies U.S. involvement in the rebllion to the press and the public