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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