How did Bay of Pigs Invasion effect the Cold War?
The Bay of Pigs fiasco and the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated the Cold War. A little history on Bay of Pigs [see below] The invasion of the Bahia de Los Cochinos or Bay of Pigs was a risky plan that was doomed for failure. Or, in John Kennedy’s words, “How can I have been so stupid to let them proceed.” Kennedy had inherited the cloak-and-dagger scheme from President Eisenhower and turned a blind eye to the fact that the invasion violated our own neutrality laws. First of all the U.S. government was completely preoccupied with the concept of keeping the world safe for democracy that they failed to realize that Castro and the Soviets knew about the invasion. In fact, Castro even knew the proposed date of April 17. Secondly the Cuban military was improved because of Soviet weapons. Despite these huge obstacles the United States government, under President John F. Kennedy, ordered the invasion because they were fearful of the possibility that communism would spread outside of Cuba. The CI
