Bay of Pigs Invasion
--Fidel Castro: promised to not bring communism to Cuba
--greatly disliked US
--April 17, 1961
--complete failure
Cuban Missle Crisis
--Oct. 1962
--closest thing to all out nuclear war
--over placing of nuclear missles by USSR in Cuba
--US had ability to hit anywhere but USSR didnt
--USSR put missles in Cuba to even the score
--Fidel Castro comes to power bringing communism
--Fidel says any attack on Cuba would mean world war
--start to suspect missles in Cuba
--find missle sights
--EX-COMM: Kennedy's top advisors
--orders quarentine of Cuba b/c couldnt get all missles down at once
--Gauntonamo Bay: US base in Cuba
--proposes taking missles out of Turkey if USSR would remove missles from Cuba
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