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A Dictionary of American History
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
Bay of Pigs Invasion On 17 April 1961, the US allowed 1,400 anti-Communist Cubans, whom it had trained and supplied, to launch an invasion of Cuba to spark a popular revolt against Fidel Castro. When Cubans failed to arise, and Communist forces trapped their opponents on the beachhead, John F. Kennedy refused to support them with combat missions by US aircraft. Castro’s forces wiped out the beachhead in two days, and left Kennedy’s administration humiliated in its first months. The fiasco encouraged the Soviet Union to order the Berlin Wall built in August and to precipitate the Cuban missile crisis by shipping nuclear weapons to Cuba. On 23–4 December 1962, 1,113 Cuban prisoners of war were flown to the US in exchange for $53,000,000 in medical equipment for Cuba.
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Chicago: Thomas L. Purvis, "Bay of Pigs Invasion," A Dictionary of American History in A Dictionary of American History (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Reference, 1995), Original Sources, accessed December 21, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GNGR8VAHX5ZBCJT.
MLA: Purvis, Thomas L. "Bay of Pigs Invasion." A Dictionary of American History, in A Dictionary of American History, Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell Reference, 1995, Original Sources. 21 Dec. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GNGR8VAHX5ZBCJT.
Harvard: Purvis, TL, 'Bay of Pigs Invasion' in A Dictionary of American History. cited in 1995, A Dictionary of American History, Blackwell Reference, Cambridge, Mass.. Original Sources, retrieved 21 December 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GNGR8VAHX5ZBCJT.
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