Fidel Castro
Cuban Revolution
Embargo
Soviet Union
Eisenhower
Cuban Exiles
JFK
Bay of Pigs
Air support
Khrushchev
Blockade
Turkey
Cuban Missile Crisis
Agreements
In 1959, Fidel Castro led a revolution in Cuba, Cuban Revolution. As a result of Castro taking over many of the American companies, America instituted an embargo against Cuba. However, Fidel castro began to accept help from the Soviet Union, both economic and military aid. Later on, in 1960, President Eisenhower agreed to let the CIA train Cuban exiles, or people that fled cuba after Fidel Castro’s overtook Cuba, to overthrow Castro. After Eisenhower left office, President JFK approved on the invasion. As a result,on April 17, 1961, the Bay of Pigs invasion took place. The American navy landed about 15 hundred Cuban exile at the Bay of Pigs, South coast of Cuba. However, at the last moment, President JFK canceled Air Support to hide American backing. Consequently, without air support, the invasion failed. To secure Castro’s communist regime over Cuba, in the summer of 1962, Soviet leader, Khrushchev, secretly, started building intermediate range ballistic missile launchers in Cuba. The American found out about the missiles through their spy plane. Seeing that, President JFK demanded that the missiles be dismantled and returned to the Soviet Union. Ships also blockaded the island, so ships carrying missile will be intercepted. On October 24, convinced that the U.S. navy will not give up, …show more content…
This theory, largely, shaped the foreign policy of the United States at the time of the Cold War. To demonstrate, America fought in the Vietnam War, during the Cold War in the fear that, if North Vietnam wins, then communism will spread to all of Vietnam and, shortly after, to the rest of Southeast Asia.
Détente
Nixon
Détente
Cuban Revolution
Embargo
Soviet Union
Eisenhower
Cuban Exiles
JFK
Bay of Pigs
Air support
Khrushchev
Blockade
Turkey
Cuban Missile Crisis
Agreements
In 1959, Fidel Castro led a revolution in Cuba, Cuban Revolution. As a result of Castro taking over many of the American companies, America instituted an embargo against Cuba. However, Fidel castro began to accept help from the Soviet Union, both economic and military aid. Later on, in 1960, President Eisenhower agreed to let the CIA train Cuban exiles, or people that fled cuba after Fidel Castro’s overtook Cuba, to overthrow Castro. After Eisenhower left office, President JFK approved on the invasion. As a result,on April 17, 1961, the Bay of Pigs invasion took place. The American navy landed about 15 hundred Cuban exile at the Bay of Pigs, South coast of Cuba. However, at the last moment, President JFK canceled Air Support to hide American backing. Consequently, without air support, the invasion failed. To secure Castro’s communist regime over Cuba, in the summer of 1962, Soviet leader, Khrushchev, secretly, started building intermediate range ballistic missile launchers in Cuba. The American found out about the missiles through their spy plane. Seeing that, President JFK demanded that the missiles be dismantled and returned to the Soviet Union. Ships also blockaded the island, so ships carrying missile will be intercepted. On October 24, convinced that the U.S. navy will not give up, …show more content…
This theory, largely, shaped the foreign policy of the United States at the time of the Cold War. To demonstrate, America fought in the Vietnam War, during the Cold War in the fear that, if North Vietnam wins, then communism will spread to all of Vietnam and, shortly after, to the rest of Southeast Asia.
Détente
Nixon
Détente