What happened at the Bay of Pigs?

Answer 1

AnswerAn invasion

Wrong. A failed invasion, and an embarassment to the Kennedy presidential campaign.

Actually, the Bay of Pigs was a project commenced by President Eisenhower where the CIA trained 1500 anti-Castro Cuban exiles for a Cuban invasion and takeover. Confident that the rebels would succeed, President Kennedy sent them in on April 17, 1961 to invade from the south at La Bahia de Cochinos, or the Bay of Pigs.

Answer 2

It was a debacle, An embaressment for the CIA. A victory for Fidel and Cuba. A painfull loss for exiled Cubans, and a chink in the shining armor of Camelot.
The U.S. backed Bay of Pigs invasion, which aimed to overthrow Fidel Castro's communist rule, was a failure. It was a huge political victory for Castro because it soldified his power over Communist Cuba.

Answer 3

Before John.F Kennedy came to power, there was a plan to invade Cuba and link up with the opponents of Castro on the island. Kennedy was advised by the CIA that Castro could be overthrown if the USA supported a group of Cuban rebels. With American support, a force of around 1,400 rebels landed at the bay of pigs in Cuba. They were trapped on the beach by Castro's forces and unable to link up with rebels on the island. As a result, they were easily defeated by Castro's forces.
This was a disaster for Kennedy. Many in the USA blamed him because he had refused to give air cover to the invasion as he did not want to be seen to be openly supporting the rebels. The sympathy of the world was with Cuba, not the Americans. To make matters worse, the Americans still had a naval base at Guantanamo in Cuba, and Castro feared that they would attack Cuba again, so he turned to the USSR for help. He announced he was a communist, and Khruschev began to provide him with weapons, including surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) that would be able to shoot down any attacking American planes. Moreover, Kennedy's actions made Khruschev think Kennedy was weak, so Khruschev tried to take advantage of this by supplying Cuba with long-range missiles that could be fired at the USA.

Answer 4

The counter-revolution failed and Cuba continued to be ruled by the communist Dictatorship of Fidel Castro, for many more decades.

Answer 5

The Bay of Pigs was invaded by CIA trained army on April 17, 1961 with the mission to oust Fidel Castro and its communist government. The assault failed.