Bay of Pigs essays

Bay of Pigs essays 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 move. No one would had guessed that the real dilemma was occurring just southwest of the shores of Key West, 90 miles away from the continental United States, on the biggest island of the Antilles, Cuba. On the island of Cuba a new beginning was about to commence. A new regime was coming into power, which was without the authoritarian control of the United States. A government that would provide and protect the interests of Cubans and bring accountability and order back to an institution flawed with corruption. With the failure and aspiration of the July 26th Movement (1953), the forces of good were able to overthrow the corrupt power of Fulgencio Batista in late December of 1958.1 The person in charge of these revolutionary acts was a man by the name of Fidel Castro. At first, Castro was not seen as a threat to U.S. control of Cuba. He was seen more like a temporary set back that eventually would be eliminated. Such believe in that ideology was apparent in President Dwight Eisenhower, who on April 1959 refused to meet and accept Castro as the new ruler of Cuba. But in time all of this came to a drastic change. During a public speech in 1960, Castro announced that he was a Marxist-Leninist, surprising many of his followers and most of all the United States. The U.S. government and President Eisenhower were outraged. This was a devastating blow to the U.S. policy toward Communism, in which it is believed that the United States should do anything in its power to rid the world of Communist rule. But wha...