Modern Era · North America · Politics

1961

Bay of Pigs fails

April 17, 1961

Fourteen hundred CIA-trained Cuban exiles landed at the Bay of Pigs expecting a popular uprising. What they got was Castro's militia waiting for them. In three days it was over. A humiliated Kennedy took the blame. Castro emerged stronger, Moscow's confidence grew, and the road toward the missile crisis opened.

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Before and after in North America

Before: 1960: The Pill approved
After: October 16, 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis

Before and after in Politics

Before: 1960: Year of Africa
After: July 3, 1962: Algeria wins independence

Era

Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Bay of Pigs