Bay of Pigs invasion by Autumn Olive

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Bay of Pigs invasion

Published on May 06, 2020

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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was in April 1961 and was a failed attack launched during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro away from power. C
On January 1, 1959, aFidel Castro drove his guerilla army into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista

August 12, 1961 - German Communist Walter Ulbricht signed the order for abarricade separating East and West Berlin.
November 9-10, 1989 - Crowds tear the wall downusing their hands, pickaxes, sledgehammers and shovels.
June 26, 1963 - John F. Kennedy spoke to a crowd in West Berlinon Rudolph Wilde Platz.

The United States installed many nuclear missile sites in Turkey and Italy, with enough range to hit Moscow..
The Soviet Union felt the need for missile sites that had the ability to strike the United States. The Cuban government also wanted protection from the United States, so decided to work together and put nuclear missiles in Cuba that could strike any part of the USA
The Cuban government also wanted protection from the United States, so decided to work together and put nuclear missiles in Cuba that could strike any part of the USA

He was assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible.
12:30 p.m., Lee Harvey Oswald “was thought to have” fired three shots from the sixth floor, and fatally wounding President Kennedy
Kennedy was pronounced dead 30 minutes later at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital

May 1, 1960, the Soviet Union shot down a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane and claimed the flight was an aggressive act. Powers was tried in the Soviet Union, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. In 1962 he was exchanged for the Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
Powers was tried in the Soviet Union, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
In 1962 he was exchanged for the Soviet spy Rudolf Abel