Bay of Pigs invasion
1961 · Event
CIA-backed Cuban exile force is routed at the Bay of Pigs; embarrassment for Kennedy.
On these timelines: Cold War, Latin America, Master, Cuban Missile Crisis, The Cuban Revolution
More from Cold War
- Solidarity movement in Poland (1980)
- Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968)
- Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan (1989)
- Helsinki Accords (1975)
- Henry Kissinger (1923)
- Truman Doctrine (1947)
- Long Telegram (1946)
- Iron Curtain speech (1946)
Around 1961
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)