Bay of Pigs 1961

In 1959 Fidel Castro led a communist revolution in Cuba. He got rid of the unpopular General Batista. Batista was tolerated by the USA because they were both capitalist and they both hated communism. Straight away President Eisenhower of the USA asked the CIA to work out a plan to get rid of communism from Americas sphere of influence. They suggested assinatng Castro but it never happened. In 1961 the new young President Kennedy took over and immediately got the CIA to…