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President Kennedy approved a plan to overthrow who using Cuban exiles?
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful attempt by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from US government armed forces, to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
Why did the bay of pig invasion happen?
the us wanted to stop cuba from becoming communist so they trained cuban exiles to invade
How did the bay of pigs end?
The war kind of just ended, but it also ended by the US backing out and just leaving the Cuban exiles. But John F. Kennedy made a trade with Castro by trading 52-53 million dollars worth of food and medicine in order to get the exiles and troops which Castro had captured. And the fail of this invasion brought shame and embarrassment to JFK and to his administration.
How many casualties durin the bay of pigs invasion?
Actual estimates are hard to determine. It was believed the the invasion force suffered 118 dead and 1201 captured. The Cuban Army lost 176 soldiers. The estimates for the militia and civilians killed or wounded could go as high as 5000 people.
People involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion?
Cuban exiles who wanted to desroy the Communist govenrment. They were backed up by the USA. The event took place in 1961, just two years after Fidel Castro took over the country.
