Bay Of Pigs Invasion Essay

One of US history's most important and embarrassing events is known as the “Bay of Pigs Invasion”. It is the year 1959, and a young enthusiastic adult by the name of Fidel Castro is planning to overthrow his government dictator Fulgencio Batista. His plan started in one of the largest mountain ranges in Cuba, the Sierra Maestra where he led his guerilla army and successfully overthrew Batista, and named himself prime minister. Then in 1960-61, this is where the US comes up with a plan to neutralize Castro. The Bay of Pigs invasion can be divided into three subcategories, how Castro took over, the US’s response, and the ‘failure’. Once Castro overthrew Fulgencio Batista and named himself Prime Minister, the US had to do something with this

While doing this, Castro and Cuba became a new threat to the United States because of their proximity and their motive. In the 50s, a young Cuban by the name of Fidel Castro lead a guerilla army against dictator Fulgencio Batista’s army from a base camp in the mountains (The Bay of Pigs Invasion CIA). He planned to overthrow Batista and become prime minister of Cuba, which he succeeded at, then he cut off diplomatic relations with the US and took his business to the Soviet Union (The Bay of Pigs Invasion CIA).“These developments proved a source of grave concern to the United States given Cuba’s geographical proximity to the United States and brought Cuba into play as a new and significant factor in the Cold

During this period, Kennedy is recently elected as the new president of the United States, therefore, he is responsible for taking the place of Eisenhower in the “Bay of Pigs invasion”. At this time, Castro is still heading to Cuba with no one going against him besides the US. In November of 1960, Kennedy is briefed on the invasion plan and after multiple meetings with his advisors and the CIA, he gives his consent to the mission. “Kennedy had inherited Eisenhower’s CIA campaign to train and equip a guerrilla army of Cuban exiles, but he had some doubts about the wisdom of the plan. The last thing he wanted, he said, was “direct, overt” intervention by the American military in Cuba: Soviets would likely see this as an act of war and might retaliate.” Right after JFK’s election in November of 1960, John F. Kennedy was briefed on the invasion plan created by the former president Eisenhower, after multiple meetings with his advisors, and the CIA, he gave his consent to the invasion (The Bay of Pigs Invasion and its Aftermath, April 1961–October 1962). The attack was a failure from the very beginning, “the bombers missed many of their targets and left most of Castro’s air force intact”, and now the problem was Cuba learned about the invasion because of the failure (The bay of pigs/ JFK library). Secondly, the land brigade attack was