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The Bay of Pigs is significant because it’s was leads to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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This event reflects how tensions were always high and how threats were always going around during this time.

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He was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The Soviet Union starting making ties with Cuba.

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He was the prime minister of Cuba during the era of the Cold War. Once he rose to power; he starting making ties with the Soviet Union.

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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U.S
Cuba
Russia

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1. The Bay of Pigs was originally called “Brigade 2506” which came from a serial number of one of the paramilitary group’s member’s that led the invasion .
2. In a bombing raid over Cuba, two bombers were shot down and four Americans in the Alabama Air National Guard were killed.
3. After being publicly interrogated and branded as “yellow worms,” the surviving members of Brigade 2506 were finally released in December 1962, after being held in captivity for 20 months.

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He was the president of the United States during this time. JFK was blamed for the Cuban Missile Crisis which happened later.

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The U.S was going to invade Cuba in efforts to contain communism but ended up upsetting Cuba and Russia.

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1959- Fidel Castro rises to power
March 1960- U.S began training to prepare for invasion
April 15, 1961- The U.S invades Cuba