a and the United States, which eventually led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Hostility between the U.S. and Cuba began with provisions of the Agrarian Reform Act. These provisions resulted in unreasonable investments for American businesses in Cuba. "Ha

That the air strike would be an irreversible step. The blockade, by contrast, promised to keep other avenues open while providing time and opportunity for the Russians to reconsider carefully the dangers of their chosen course.

d the U.S. government recognized the imperative necessity of the reforms, and offered Cuba financial aid, the break in relations could easily have been avoided." Soon after taking the Presidency in 1961, John F. Kennedy gave final approval for what would become known as the Bay of Pigs. This came out of the fear of a Third World Communist expansion into Cuba, which was only 90 miles from the Florida Keys. The United States used the Anti-Castro Cubans, who fled the island, to form a "counterrevolutionary invasion force." Assumption by the CIA that the same Anti-Castro feelings lingered in Cuba gave rise to the thought of air strikes and an invasion, believing these attacks would cause riots and "defection of the Cuban Army." Soon the United States would find out that there was no real evidence!

In order to eliminate as rapidly as possible the conflict which endangers the cause of peace, to give an assurance to all people who crave peace, and to reassure the American people who, I am certain, also wanted peace, as do the people of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Government, in addition to earlier instructions on the discontinuation of further work on weapons construction sites, has given a new order to dismantle the arms which you described as offensive, and to crate and return them to the Soviet Union.

McNamara took the side of Rusk, suggesting that the best way to get the Soviet missiles out of Cuba was the naval blockade. A positive feature was that the blockade was pressure enough against the Soviet Union, but it also left options open for both sides. Adlai Stevenson suggested the calling of a United Nations meeting to come to a solution that the United States could agree to; Kennedy agreed to this meeting. Stevenson also thought that if the U.S. gave up Guantanamo and agreed to "demilitarizing, neutralizing and guaranteeing territorial integrity of Cuba," the Soviet Union would offer the removal of their missiles in Cuba.

The first planned landing (Operation TRINIDAD) coincided with their backup plan for seeking refuge in the mountains. The revised plan (Operation ZAPATA) did not include this mountainous terrain for refuge. Operation ZAPATA brought the landing to the Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs); the mountains were unobtainable from there. The United States launched the first air strike on April 15, launching only six B-26 bombers, and they destroyed less than half of the Cuban air force. As one witness stated Zapata was "a perfect failure." Soon, increased trade between the Soviet Union and Cuba began. The Soviets would trade oil for sugar, whereas the U.S. wanted cash that Cuba could not give them. Tensi

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