Bay of Pigs Invasion

under the ownership or control of a nation, as industries and land) and confiscation (to seize as forfeited to the public domain) without reimbursing (to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred) of American property in Cuba, and the Bay of Pigs invasion occurred (Dictionary.com). These conflicts increased tension and distrust between the two nations. In the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other guerrilla fighters (members of a band of irregular soldiers that uses guerrilla warfare,…

The Presidential Motorcade along with a car ahead, and a car behind pulled onto Houston Street in Dallas, Texas, around 12:30 P.M. with President Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Nellie Connally, and Governor Connally. Like all Presidents, President Kennedy decided to take a nine day campaign tour which went to nine different states, and ended in Texas. November 21st, 1963, Kennedy and the First Lady departed on Air Force One for a two day, five city campaign tour, which went from San Antonio, to…

In another time of war, WWII, water would be a means of power and advancement. Once again Americans weren’t eager to get involved in war as many saw it as far and distant. It wasn’t until we were attacked at Pearl Harbor that our perception of the war changed. The United States knew that an attack was going to happen in the Pacific but they didn’t know where or when until it happened on December 7, 1941. Japanese planes bombed the naval base in Hawaii and flew into ships. Naval warfare in the…

The Cuban missile crisis or also better known as the missile scare was one the treacherous occurrences in human history. This nerve-racking event took place in October of 1962 and was a dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. U.S discovered missile plants when a spy plane spotted the site. This caused a for an intense 13 day feud, the Soviet Union and the United States were both anxiously waiting to see which of the two would make the first…

The Cuban Revolution rooted itself in Cuba in the year 1961. Prior to 1961, the Revolution was an experiment in Cuba, but because of the decisions Fidel Castro made, the government of the revolution legitimized itself and became truly recognized as the standing government of Cuba. Castro declared the year 1961 the Year of Education but much more occurred; in 1961 Castro was able to fight off the United States at Playa Girón and then solidified international alliances with the Soviet Union, the…

The Cuba revolution happened in 1953 July 26th, to 1959 January 1st, the Cuba revolution occurred from deep unhappiness with the regime of Fulgencio Batista (Batista) elected president of Cuba in 1940 to 1944 then turned dictator from 1952 to 1959. Batista allowed Cuba to be controlled and exploited by the USA. By March 1952 the protagonist for launching an armed revolution was Fidel Castro (Castro) a young lawyer and activists petitioned who aimed to overthrow Batista. Castro accused Batista of…

It was the day of November 22, 1963, commotion ran rampant across the Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas as thousands of people were witnessing a man gasp for his last breaths on the shoulders of his wife. That man was the 35th president of the United States of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. In the days that followed, through unsubstantial evidence, Lee Harvey Oswald would be convicted for this heinous crime, however, before he could have a chance to prove his innocence in a fair and just…

Back in the 1960’s there was a lot going in the U.S and the world. For years and years we as Americans have been known as the saviors to the countries we help to keep their independence and those who want to preserve democracy.One country that has been communist for as long as we know have been abusing their people to get more and more money, and that country is Cuba.In Cuba the government has all control where as the people have none, everything the people have is owned by the government. If a…

The murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy lead to several people wondering if it was one individual or more involved in the shooting. Lee Harvey Oswald was known to kill the President all by himself. The question is, how can Oswald be the only person that contributed in the killing when there were 3 shots fired? “You probably also know there are hundreds of conspiracy theories about who was behind the assassination, and whether Oswald was the lone gunman or if there was another shooter on the…

At the same time, the US intelligence also faced severe failures, when carrying out covert actions. The Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 is the most notable example: the failure in overthrowing the regime of Castro in Cuba exposed publicly the US intelligence and marked permanently the relationships between US and USSR, eventually leading to the Cuban missile crisis…