Bay of Pigs
The initiation of the Cold War in the late 1950s brought forth a feeling of uncertainty to the United States government. Communist activity in the USSR (United Soviet Socialist Republic) and else where around the world, increased drastically and put the U.S. in a defensive minded position. There was no clear intention of what could transpire at any given moment, the only thing that could be done was to wait patiently for the next move. No one would had guessed that the real dilemma was occurring just southwest of the shores of Key West, 90 miles away from the continental United States, on the biggest island of the Antilles, Cuba. On the island of Cuba a new beginning was about to commence. A new regime was coming into power, which was without the authoritarian control of the United States. A government that would provide and protect the interests of Cubans and bring accountability and order back to an institution flawed with corruption. With the failure and aspiration of the July 26th Movement (1953), the forces of good were able to overthrow the corrupt power of Fulgencio Batista in late December of 1958.1 The person in charge of these revolutionary acts was a man by the name of Fidel Castro.
At first, the mission was comprised of leading groups of Cuban exiles to specific locations within the island to launch propaganda against the Castro regime and bring together the anti-Castro coalitions in support of a major uprising against the government. and furthermore would cause a scandal if it were not fixed, but by this time this was not going to be made possible. 19 Throughout the short tenure of Kennedy this became a symbol of his administration and it would be a guiding light for further struggles that they would face including the Cuban Missile Crisis. 14 Eight B-26 bombers attacked strategic Cuban air bases and blew away as much of the Cuban airforce as possible. Congress passed legislation that would set up an embargo against Cuba, therefore, cutting off all United States interest in the country. "12 In an effort to defer more responsibility away from the United States, Kennedy ordered a drastic change to Operation Zapata. Essentially the method of accomplishing this end will be to induce, support, and so far as possible direct action, both inside and outside of Cuba, by selected groups of Cubans of a sort that they might be expected to and could undertake on their own initiative. in such a manner as to avoid any appearance of U. On March 27,1961, Castro spoke to a gathering of militia in Ciudad Libertad, Cuba and said: "We also are organizing ourselves. Kennedy was running against Vice-President Richard Nixon for the prize of becoming the country's next president, but also the new successor in the overthrowing of Castro. Such believe in that ideology was apparent in President Dwight Eisenhower, who on April 1959 refused to meet and accept Castro as the new ruler of Cuba. He quickly gathered his troops and headed to the Bay of Pigs to await their arrival. Later on in the day, the United States proposed Operation Zapata a total failure, about 100 members of the brigade died and 1,400 men were captured and kept as POWs (Prisoners of War).
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