Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs EssayBy Rudra NaikThe Cold War was a period in history in which an intense rivalry overwhelmed two nations. The two sides were the Soviet Union and the United States. The Cold War was not a battle involving weapons. It was more of a competition between two countries. Each side believed that its political and economic systems were superior to the other. The United States believed in democracy and wanted all countries to be democratic. The Soviet Union believed in communism and wanted all countries to be communist. The Bay of Pigs invasion was a Cold War battle. Fidel Castro, the leader of Cuba, was a communist. The United States did not want any communist countries in the Western Hemisphere. They attempted to overthrow him but failed. This attack was called the Bay of Pigs invasion. The intent of the invasion was to destroy communism in Cuba and put an end to Fidel Castro. A year later came the Cuban Missile Crisis: it was the closest thing the world came to destroying. The Bay of Pigs invasion fiasco leads to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The main reason for the Bay of Pigs attack was because Cuba became communist. On February 16, 1959, Fidel Castro and his guerrillas overthrew the old government led by Fulgencio Batista. Then Fidel Castro became the prime minister of Cuba. Castro and his men made a quick move to change their political course. They became friends of the Soviet Union. These events shocked the United States and there were concerns that Castro would become too powerful. And US President Eisenhower made a plan to overthrow Castro and his government. President Eisenhower met with the CIA to develop a plan for this invasion. And in March 1960 Eisenhower approved the program. The CIA gathered... middle of paper... had another reason to harbor hatred towards the United States. With this event Castro felt more secure with the Soviet Union. Castro looked up to the Soviet Union for help in this event. The Soviet Union was helping them by providing them with resources. When the United States stops purchasing Cuba's resources, the Soviet Union will help them by purchasing those resources. So Cubans and Castro felt safer being with the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union was doing their favor; they just didn't want to help a country. They did it for their own benefit, so that Cuba can be a communist country ninety miles from America. The Soviet Union is for this because, by using Cuba, it could blow up the United States and kill everyone. And this was the plan of the Soviet Union: to blow up the United States so that only communism would exist in this world. So the Soviet Union declared to install nuclear missiles on Cuba. This missile could explode entire United States at any time. THE