The Bay of Pigs Invasion

&

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Kent Korwatch & Dane Wostenberg

?Who?

I. John F Kennedy

II. Fidel Castro

III. Nikita Khrushchev

                              

                      

John F Kennedy• US president elected 1960

• Berlin wall built in the first year of his term

• Assassinated in 1963

• New Frontier program 1961(space exploration)

Fidel Castro

• Over through the Cuban government 1959

• Became communist leader in 1960

• Still in power today

• First Communist State in

west

Nikita Khrushchev

• Russia leader from 1953 to 1964

• Joined communist party in 1918

• Died on Sept. 11, 1971

• Born April 5, 1894

• Denounced Stalin and his

Methods

?What?When?Where?

The Bay of Pigs

The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Bay of Pigs

• An unsuccessful attack on Cuba • Designed to over through the government

of Fidel• April 17th ,1961• Cuban refugees trained in U.S. Guatemala

to fight Fidel• Violated agreements to not interfere in the

western hemisphere• CIA advised Kennedy to attack

The Cuban Missile Crisis

• Oct.16, 1962 photos reveal Soviets building missile sights in Cuba

• Options: negotiate with Khrushchev, invade Cuba, blockade Cuba, bomb missile sights

• U.S. quarantines Cuba• Russia sends more ships, Khrushchev calls

them back• U.S. agrees to remove weapons in Turkey for

Russian disarmament in Cuba

Kennedy’s Map of Cuba

Aftereffects

• “Hot line” established from US to Russia

• Limited Test Band Treaty