Bay of Pigs

The initiation of the Cold War in the late 1950s brought forth a feeling of uncertainty to the United States government. Communist activity in the USSR (United Soviet Socialist Republic) and else where around the world, increased drastically and put the U.S. in a defensive minded position. There was no clear intention of what could transpire at any given moment, the only thing that could be done was to wait patiently for the next …

…disgust and false hopes, they would realize that this was not the end of Castro. In December of 1962, $53 million in food and medicine that was raised by private donations in the U.S. for the release of 1,113 brigade members was paid to Cuba.19 Throughout the short tenure of Kennedy this became a symbol of his administration and it would be a guiding light for further struggles that they would face including the Cuban Missile Crisis.