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He had taken over the Cuban government in a coup in 1952. Batista’s coup occurred just before scheduled elections.
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Castro was released form jail and sent to Mexico, but nit for long he went back to Cuba and tried to invade it for victory bt it failed.
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When John Kennedy was elected president in 1960, he was presented with a decision. Under the Eisenhower administration, the CIA had developed a plan to support an invasion of Cuba carried out by a group of Cuban refugees.
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By 1961, all political and economic relations between the United States and Cuba had ended.
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On April 17, 1961, the CIA-backed force of 1,400 Cuban refugees landed at the swampy Bay of Pigs on Cuba’s southern coast. A Cuban force of 20,000 easily overwhelmed the invaders, capturing about 1,100 men and imprisoning them.
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On October 22, President Kennedy issued a formal demand to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev that the missiles be removed from Cuba. Kennedy gave a televised speech announcing that the United States had indisputable evidence of offensive missiles in Cuba.
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In 1962, intelligence reports noted a dramatic increase in the cooperation between Cuba and the Soviet Union. Shipments from Soviets to Cubans was assumed to contain weapons
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By October 15, 1962, the administration knew with certainty that Cuba had the missiles and the launching capacity to attack the United States.
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However, Kennedy never had the opportunity to respond to this escalating conflict. He was assassinated on November 22, 1963.
