The Significance of the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis on the Cold War
Words: 464 Pages: 2 5764On January 1, 1959 a Cuban nationalist by the name of Fidel Castro, drove his guerilla army into Havana, the capital of Cuba. Him and his guerrilla dethroned General Fulgencio Batista who was the Cuban president at the time. He ruled for two two years while the State Department and the CIA aimed to push […]