Kennedy's Response To The Bay Of Pigs

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“Their commitment to stopping the spread of communism kept the nation locked in the same bitter conflict that had dominated foreign policy in the 1950s and led to continuing global confrontations that sometimes threatened the stability of the entire world” (Nash, p. 865). In Kennedy’s inaugural address, he asserts the dangers that the United States faced in the Cold War. He then eloquently describes the fact that the United States needs to help stop it. The direct challenges from the Soviet Union in response to Cuba led to the Bay of Pigs. The crisis in Cuba was leaning towards the Soviet Union that would help save them and threaten the Monroe Doctrine. The U.S. broke their ties with Cuba, while anti-Castro stormed the Cuban coast at the Bay