23. Cold War: Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)

Executing a plan developed and approved by the Eisenhower administration, President John F. Kennedy deployed a brigade of 1,400 Cuban exiles to overthrow Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro in 1961. The Bay of Pigs Invasion was terribly executed and a significant disaster for the Kennedy administration. 

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The History of the Bay of Pigs Invasion

https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/the-bay-of-pigs

Cuban Revolution

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-cuban-revolution-2136372

Cold War Timeline

https://titanmissilemuseum.org/about/cold-war-timeline/

U.S. and Cuba Relations

https://2001-2009.state.gov/p/wha/rls/fs/2001/2558.htm#:~:text=As%20a%20result%2C%20the%20United,the%20October%201962%20missile%20crisis.

U.S. and Cuba Relations

https://www.cfr.org/timeline/us-cuba-relations

Germany 1945-1949

https://www.historyandpolicy.org/policy-papers/papers/germany-1945-1949-a-case-study-in-post-conflict-reconstruction

Bay of Pigs Strategy Case Study

https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2017/5/2/bay-of-pigs-a-case-study-in-strategic-leadership-and-failed-assumptions

Operation Ajax

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/20/64-years-later-cia-finally-releases-details-of-iranian-coup-iran-tehran-oil/

The Founding of NATO

https://www.nato.int/wearenato/why-was-nato-founded.html

The Truman Doctrine

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/truman-doctrine#:~:text=With%20the%20Truman%20Doctrine%2C%20President,external%20or%20internal%20authoritarian%20forces.

The Cuban Revolution https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1040&context=headwaters