It was mainly "a. Genghis Khan" who <span>united and expanded the Mongol Empire, due mostly to his superior military skills, which allowed the Mongols to conquer vast areas of land. </span>
Edvard Munch is the twentieth-century artistic movement that stressed intense, subjective emotion
Four Corners region (where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet).
<span>King John renamed the cape because it gave him hope that Portuguese ships would finally find their way to Asia because they had proved they could go around the southern tip of Africa.</span>
On April 17, 1961, 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. The US government distrusted Castro and was wary of his relationship with Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union.
Before his inauguration, John F. Kennedy was briefed on a plan by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) developed during the Eisenhower administration to train Cuban exiles for an invasion of their homeland. The plan anticipated that the Cuban people and elements of the Cuban military would support the invasion. The ultimate goal was the overthrow of Castro and the establishment of a non-communist government friendly to the United States.