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.
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The Counter-Reformation was an organization within the Catholic Church dedicated to fighting the consequences of the Protestant Reformation and undoing them by reforming Church abuses and eliminating heresies, etc. It could be argued that it began formally in 1545 with the Council of Trent, which was opened by Pope Paul III specifically to strengthen the Church in the face of the revolutionary developments in the Protestant countries of northern Europe. This happened more than 20 years after the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, and it was so given that the Catholics themselves had various political conflicts among their main leaders of each nation.
The Counter-Reformation was at its peak in the second half of the 16th century but continued until the middle of the succeeding century. The establishment of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) and its development into a missionary body sending priests to all parts of the world, from Peru to China and Japan, seek to restore the spiritual life and philosophical foundations of the Church.
Alfred Wegener<span> brought together several lines of </span>evidence<span> to support his theory of continental drift. One is quite simple -- that the continents look like they could "fit" together, much like puzzle pieces that have drifted apart.</span>
OPTION A: They held the first national protest against the war in Vietnam.
Students for a Democratic Society (1960-74) was a student activist organization of the U.S., initially engaged in civil rights movement. It was responsible for organizing the first national protest against the war in Vietnam on Washington, D.C., in April 1965. Since then, the SDS grew more militant especially about issues relating to the war.
Answer: was to bring the war with Japan to a speedy end and spare American lives. It has been suggested that the second objective was to demonstrate the new weapon of mass destruction to the Soviet Union.
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