The War Of Fidel Castro

The invasion of Cuba was one of the most underdeveloped, and overestimated plan the U.S came up with. The primary reason for this invasion was for President Kennedy to prove that the U.S could win the cold war. So, how did it fully become a reality, what were the precautions they took that should have led them to victory, and what was the result of this failure?

     The CIA was furious but went ahead with the invasion. It failed due to poor intelligence. It had landed on a the worst beach killing 15 of the CIA’s best men with another 1100 in Cuban prisons.

In attempt to push Cuban nationalist Fidel Castro out of power, in April of 1961 the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) launched full-scale invasion of the Bahía de Cochinos in Cuba that was unfortunately not a success and failed miserably within 24 hours. After two years of trying to remove Castro from his political position America was very optimistic about this final strike. However, between being outnumbered by Castro's troops and almost immediately surrendering the invasion was not effective.

There were a lot of misunderstandings between the two sides. This all began with The Bay of Pigs Invasion. The Bay of Pigs Invasion started when trained Cuban refugees land in Cuba to attack the government of Fidel Castro. Fidel Castro had been a threat to the U.S. The U.S. president at the time which was Dwight D. Eisenhower was planning an armed attack on Cuba. Then, JFK became president so he had to take over the attack. However, the attack had failed when the U.S. didn't have any air support and were very unprepared. The Cuban Missile Crisis came into play when there were nuclear Cuban missiles being placed close to the U.S. John F. Kennedy had a plan to prevent the Soviets to keep placing missiles as well as having previous missiles be removed. This all ended when Kennedy agrees to remove Turkey missiles if the Soviets remove Cuban missiles. John F. Kennedy and the U.S. win the crisis because the Soviets backed out.

Cuba was taken over by a communist ruler, Fidel Castro, in January of 1959 (Document D). The Soviet Union started sending over numerous troops, missiles, and nuclear weapons to station in Cuba (Document D). The US knew that they had to contain the communism in Cuba and so they placed a quarantine on it preventing ships to carry offensive weapons to Cuba (Document D). In the end, the Soviets were stopped by the quarantine and started to remove their missiles from Cuba (Document D). The US used their policy of containment by supporting Cuba at the beginning to keep communism from entering it(though it did fail), by placing a quarantine on Cuba, keeping the communism contained in Cuba, and stopping the Soviets from attacking the

Then after a series of many miscalculations the invasion was a complete failure. This failure then served to strengthen Fidel Castro’s rise to more power and the Cuban ties with the Soviet Union. In the end Kennedy decided that plausible deniability would be insupportable and claimed full responsibility for the decision to invade Cuba: “There’s an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan... I am the responsible officer of the government.” (Kornbluh 3)

Fidel Castro and the Fidelistas became aware of the operation and the invasion did not go smoothly. The U.S.

The Invasion happened because of Fidel Castro’s actions and what he did to Americans. He wasn’t hated by everyone though,”Many Cubans liked Castro’s overthrow in 1959 of Batista”(History.com). In addition”As soon as Castro came to power, Castro took steps to reduce American influence on the island”(History.com). Furthermore,”The Cuban government of Fidel Castro became increasingly communist in 1961”(World Book). The United States hated communism during the Cold war.

The invasion was a plan to topple the Cuban government, with a group of Cuban expatriates with the support of the U.S. government. The invasion was a complete failure. Although Kennedy was known to have a cabinet and set of advisors, which came from the best schools and were supposed to be the best in the business they failed to notice even the most obvious flaws in their plan. In short, there were numerous flaws, ranging from the expected reaction of the Cuban populace, the capacity of the Cuban military and all around faulty intelligence. In fact, many of these issues were never even addressed, while the plan was being discussed. Many of these issues were based on faulty intelligence, which was never questioned. Irving Janis, wrote a book called Group Think, which examined these fiascos like these along with many others. The premise was simple, why do groups of what we consider very smart

     When the revolution in Cuba started, Dwight Eisenhower took the lead in telling his advisors what he wanted done. First off, arms were given to Batista’s militia through Eisenhower’s orders and then after Batista turned them upon his own countrymen, it was Eisenhower’s decision to place arms sanctions against them. This meant that they would not be sent anymore of the US’s artillery. The President only made decisions when there was a heightened awareness of what was going on in Cuba and it affected the US in some way. Another time this model was shown was during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kennedy took matters into his own hands when it

After Fidel Castro overthrew Cuban strongman Fulgencio Batista, expropriated American economic assets and developed links with the Soviet Union, President Eisenhower authorized the CIA in March 1960 to develop a plan to overthrow Castro. The agency trained and armed Cuban exiles to carry out the attack. Shortly after his inauguration, John F. Kennedy learned of the invasion plan, concluded that Fidel Castro was a Soviet client posing a threat to all of Latin America and, after consultations with his advisers, gave his consent in February 1961 for the CIA-planned amphibious assault.

Another consequence of the United States withdrawing her hand from barring the totalitarian grip of Communism was the 1950s insurgency of Communist Fidel Castro in Cuba. In 1959, after years of conflicts with the incumbent

The Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba by the United States on April 17, 1961 was in the planning stages before John F. Kennedy became America 's President. The plan was made by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) during the Eisenhower years, and JFK supported the decision with modifications. Kennedy’s goal was to remove Fidel Castro from power of Cuba, cut his ties with the Soviet Union and establish a friendly government of the United States. He wanted the invasion to seem just plainly anti-Castro, but the plan got leaked and when it actually did happen, nearly everything went wrong. The attempt was handled poorly and it made JFK look very bad. Even though Kennedy took the blame for it, it was not entirely his fault. To this day, Castro remains in power of Cuba and the United States does not have control of it at all.

There were over 1500 cubans used in the Bay of Pigs. The USA used the cubans as an invasion force. The Cubans failed and 200 were killed and 1197 were captured. On April 19 the Invasion force surrendered. USA denied their involvement but the evidence was substantial. The Bay of Pigs gave communism a victory. This event caused a ton of tension between the United States and Cuba. The United States resorted to other ways of getting rid of Castro like assassinations. The Kennedy administration attempted to kill him 42 times. (Kaufman 2) This caused Castro to seek out Russia's help. Russia saw this as an opportunity to advance their missiles closer to the United States and to show their power. Thus started the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Castro intended on helping Cuba’s high poverty, but Castro did not turn Cuba into a democracy like he said he would (“Cuban missile Crisis”2). In 1960 the soviet premier attempted to convince Castro to become communist, soon after this castro became communist, probably influenced by the soviet premier (“Cuban missile Crisis”3). A new american president, that could probably change the war, was coming into office around this time, President Kennedy. The new president would take on the problem of this new cuban leader (International Encyclopedia of the… 1). Before him, Eisenhower trained about 1,500 Cuban Exiles in secret to try to take over Cuba, Kennedy allowed this to go on. On april 17, the exils attempted to invade Cuba(“Cuban missile Crisis”3). Since Castro had found out about the invasion, he was ready and defeated the the incoming force easily(“Cuban missile Crisis”3-4). The failed invasion seemed to help the Cuban opinion of Castro. He was now an obvious threat and so the U.S. decided to start operation Mongoose. Operation Mongoose was a secret operation to get rid of Castro, it was an operation where the U.S. would try to sabotage Cuba, but Operation Mongoose never ended up happening. The U.S.S.R. did not want to lose Cuba so they decided to secretly send weapons into Cuba, including nuclear weapons (“Cuban missile Crisis”4). These arm shipments would lead to one of the