Items tagged "Cuba": 4

April 23, 1961. The United States has had enough. They have put up with the Russians in Cuba long enough. It’s time for action. After the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of April 17-19 1961, the United States was ready to put on it’s butt-kicking Monroe Doctrine boots. The Doctrine upheld the ideals of US foreign policy with stressed no outside…

In the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy was criticized heavily for not taking more aggressive action in Cuba. Many politicians as well as the public felt that by not taking it upon himself to be in charge of a more aggressive campaign against communism in Cuba, Kennedy was abandoning the principles set out in the…

Nikita Khrushchev here is depicted as a Frogman, which was a WWII term for someone who is trained in scuba diving in a military or combat capacity. A “Monroe Doctrine” flag is seen flying above a ship in the background. This refers to the fact that President Kennedy was using the Monroe Doctrine as a justification for action in Cuba at…

In 1965, the Cuban Missile Crisis had been over for two years. However tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union were still high. While Soviet nuclear warheads were no longer in Cuba, there was still covert operations helping Cuban Communist Leader Fidel Castro control the island. Warren King here clearly thought the U.S. has…