Bay of Pigs Invasion
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
Part of Cold War
Cuban poster warning before invasion showing a soldier armed with an RPD Light machine gun.
Date
April 15 ? 19, 1961
Location
Bay of Pigs, southern Cuba
Result
Decisive Communist victory
Belligerents
Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces
Cuban exiles trained by the United States
Commanders
Fidel Castro
Jos? Ram?n Fern?ndez
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Francisco Ciutat de Miguel
John F. Kennedy
Grayston Lynch
Pepe San Roman
Erneido Oliva
Strength
Over 20,000
1,511 Cuban exiles
2 CIA agents
Casualties and losses
1,600 to 5,000 killed[1]
115 killed
1,189 captured
The 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful attempted invasion by armed Cuban exiles in southwest Cuba, planned and funded by the United States, in an attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. This action accelerated a rapid deterioration in Cuban-American relations, which was further worsened by the Cuban Missile Crisis the following year.
The invasion is named after the Bay of Pigs, where the landing took place. It is known in Cuba as Invasi?n de Bah?a de Cochinos or Playa Gir?n.