What was the Bay of Pigs invasion? the decision of the Kennedy administration to support the government of General Batista the u
se of guerilla insurgents to capture and assassinate Cuban leader Che Guevara an attempt by the United Nations to drop food supplies into Cuba to aid counter-revolutionaries a failed attempt by the United States government to assist in overthrowing Fidel Castro
President Truman had the CIA train over 3000 Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro. Before the invasion, Kennedy took over office and approved it. The invasion failed miserably. In under 90 hours, over 2000 of the exiles were captured and the rest were killed. Kennedy denied to give them air support because he didn't want any US soldiers involved because it would start a war with Cuba and possibly provoke the Soviet Union. President Kennedy had the captured exiles released for a price of food and resources.
Aside from a general curiosity about space, the United States wanted to go to space because the Russians were trying to get there too, and we were in a "cold" war with them.
