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Dwight D. Eisenhower - scheme to train Cuban exiles
for invasion of their homeland and victory over Fidel
Castro's regime

US maintain close relationship with junta since Cuban
independence in 1898, benefit from their significant
influence over sugar economy

Castro's guerrilla troops topple junta friendly dictator
Fulgencio Batista, left tuba on 1/1/1959

Castro sought cordial relationship with US, reluctant to
embrace label of Marxism

Eisenhower admin eager to direct regime change

CIA prepare 1400 Cuban anticommunist exiles for 
invasion at Bay of Pigs

4/17/1961 - Kennedy let operation take place

surviving troops surrendered, allowed to return to US
following year

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      Cuban Missile Crisis

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Bay of Pigs help push Cuba and Soviet Union closer

October 1962 - US spy planes document installation of

nuclear missile site on Cuba

impose naval blockade, demand removal of missiles

president and advisors debate between nuclear attack, 

ultimatum, or continued negotiations

Kennedy resisted aggressive options

10/28/1962 - Soviet agree to remove missile facility if

US doesn't invade Cuba and remove missile faciities

in Turkey

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            Turn Toward

         Non-Proliferation

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began talks aimed at limiting spread of nuclear weapons

1963 - agreement that prohibited atmospheric nuclear tests

Kennedy encourage step back from ideological fanaticism

of Cold War in speech at American University in DC

don't think of Soviet Union as malicious empire, bear in

mind their sacrifice in WWII

introduce idea of "peaceful coexistence" between US and

Soviet Union

Khrushchev's concessions on Cuba mark his political end

1964 - ousted from Kremlin, replaced by Alexei Kosygin,

Leonid Brezhnev