Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis (jan 1, 1961 – jan 1, 1962)

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In the Bay of Pigs incident, JFK approved the U.S. invasion of Cuba against Castro, but it was a failure that caused the capture of over a thousand Americans. The Cuban Missile Crisis marked the moment of highest tension of the Cold War—the U.S. barely avoided war when JFK and Khrushchev made a compromise under the threat of nuclear war.

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