Question

why were the bay of pigs invasion and the cuban missile crisis major events in the kennedy presidency

Answer 1

The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1961-1962. In early 1961 President John F. Kennedy concluded that Fidel Castro was a Soviet client working to subvert Latin America. After much debate in his administration Kennedy authorized a clandestine invasion of Cuba by a brigade of Cuban exiles.