The Bay of pigs was a mission where many Cubans (and among those Cubans were Cuban mobsters) were trained, and sent to fight the socialist revolution and start a counter revolution. Kennedy back out on air support and in doing so many soldiers including mobsters died and the CIA took the blame for his action of not going through with the air support. As result he angered many people, dangerous people in which i believe had the intention to harm him and the means to do so. Unfortunately for John F. Kennedy a decision he made back fired. However he believed it was the right choice he believed he had to make.
did the Bay of Pigs or Cuban Missile Crisis have anything to do with the Kennedy assassination?1/21/2015
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Many attempts were made throughout Europe to stop the spread of communism during the 1950's and as time went on the fear of it spreading was more intense, and spread worldwide. In the US something known as McCarthyism was put in place and was essentially a witch hunt for those practicing or suspected of communism. During 1950-54 this period was filled with paranoia and even being suspected and the idea that you practiced communism ruined many peoples lives in the US. Dwight D. Eisenhower also played a huge role in the stop of communism world wide. It was his goal to provide a doctrine of containment around the world and he did this by introducing, OAS, ANZUS, SEATO, and CENTO.
Two attempts the USA made with efforts to stop the spread of communism were the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine. The Marshall Plan was created to help out Europe economically with aims to recreate the European economy before the second world war. The second attempt made to stop the spread of communism was the Truman Doctrine, implemented by the president of the time, Harry Truman. It essentially was the promise and idea to help out any democratic nation, politically, economically, and militarily. This assistance from the US surely helped cease the further spread of communism in Europe from 1945-1950. These plans were in motion for about 4 years and they did what they were created to do. “We are going to continue to fight communism. Now I am going to tell you how we are not going to fight communism. We are not going to transform our fine FBI into a Gestapo secret police. That is what some people would like to do. We are not going to try to control what our people read and say and think. We are not going to turn the United States into a right-wing totalitarian country in order to deal with a left-wing totalitarian threat.” - Harry Truman
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