Uncover the complexities of the Cold War, focusing on Cuba's pivotal role in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Understand how Fidel Castro's rise to power and alignment with the Soviet Union escalated tensions with the United States. Learn...

What was the Bay of Pigs Invasion? How was the United States involved? Learn about the invasion that sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis and defined US_Cuban relations for more than five decades. Cuban Missile Crisis • The Cuban Missile......

/ Crowds fill the streets in Cuba / Fidel Castro speaks passionately to the crowd. Fidel Castro and the Invasion of Cuba on April 17, 1961 in Cuba (Footage by Getty Images)

Old tank at museum Cuban victory in Bay of Pigs war in Playa Giron Cuba

Old tank at museum Cuban victory in Bay of Pigs war in Playa Giron Cuba

Old plane at museum Cuban victory in Bay of Pigs war in Playa Giron Cuba

Entrance to museum Cuban victory in Bay of Pigs war in Playa Giron Cuba

Old plane at museum Cuban victory in Bay of Pigs war in Playa Giron Cuba

Old plane at museum Cuban victory in Bay of Pigs war in Playa Giron Cuba

Demonstrations in East Berlin for and against Castro and Cuba shortly before JFK's 'Bay of Pigs' speech / people holding signs

Tropical beach with old bunker near Playa Larga, Bay of Pigs, Matanzas, Cuba. Site of the American invasion of 1961.

/ Cuban army pilots stand in front of plane / CU of weaponry / CU of plane nose / refugee Cuban pilot speaks with officials in Florida / acting Foreign Minister Carlos Olivares shows spent missiles to diplomats / CU missiles. Cuban Army...

Anti-Castro march on the White House around the time of the Bay of Pigs invasion; demonstrators carrying signs with police observing; protesters with Cuban flag; group of woman with sign reading 'USA Help' the 'Cubans Throw Castro Out of...

/ LS of Cuban militia training camp in Guatemalan foothills / soldiers sit at long table cleaning guns / men undergo gun training. Cuban rebels train in Guatemala on April 17, 1961 in Guatemala (Footage by Getty Images)

/ Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa Garcia addresses United Nations, accusing the United States of invading Cuba / CU Raul Roa Garcia as he gives his speech / CU Ambassador Adlai Stevenson as he denies Cuban charges of invasion. UN...

JFK speech about Cuba to the American Society of Newspaper Editors / 'Any unilateral American intervention, in the absence of an external attack upon ourselves or an ally, would have been contrary to our traditions and to our...