The answer is C.
The CIA financed and trained a group of Cuban refugees or exiles to attack Cuba and topple the government of Fidel Castro. The attack was an utter failure.
Though many of his military advisors indicated that an amphibious assault on Cuba by a group of lightly armed exiles had little chance for success, President Kennedy gave the go-ahead for the attack.
On April 17 1961, about 1,200 exiles armed with American weapons and using American landing craft waded ashore at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba.
Over 100 of the exiles were killed and 1,100 captured by the Cuban armed forces.
Answer: The Gadsden Purchase, or Treaty, was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico.
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Guinea-Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique gained independence from Portugal.The Soviet Union and the Soviet Bloc broke apart.
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U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry opened American trade relations with Japan in 1854. President Theodore Roosevelt brokered a 1905 peace treaty in the Russo-Japanese War that was favorable to Japan. The two signed a Commerce and Navigation Treaty in 1911. Japan had also sided with the U.S., Great Britain, and France during World War I.
During that time, Japan also embarked on forming an empire modeled after the British Empire. Japan made no secret that it wanted economic control of the Asia-Pacific region.
By 1931, however, U.S.-Japanese relations had soured. Japan's civilian government, unable to cope with the strains of the global Great Depression, had given way to a militarist government. The new regime was prepared to strengthen Japan by forcibly annexing areas in the Asia-Pacific. It started with China.
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