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By: Kyle John F. Kennedy was became in as President of the United States on January 20,1961. He faced his first serious emergency just four months after being inaugurated. Fidel Castro, a guerrilla leader had taken over the Batista dictatorship and made himself leader of Cuba. Castro moved to a communist dictatorship and was receiving help from the Soviet Union. J.F.K. allowed a plan that Eisenhower had made to bring down the Cuban dictator, but it failed. This event was named the Bay of Pigs. This hurt the U.S.’s likeness overseas, but especially with the Soviet Union.
After the Bay of Pigs, Nikita Khrushchev authorized the building of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. This threatened the United States with a nuclear attack. J.F.K. demanded that the Soviets remove all nuclear weapons in Cuba. This began the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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