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In 1960, the U.S. government began funding and training a group of about 1,400 Cuban exiles to invade Cuba. The purpose of the event known as the Bay of Pigs invasion was to ____. a. bring a peaceful end to the Cold War b. end Cuban drug running to the U.S c.overthrow Cuban dictator Fidel Castro d. locate all nuclear weapons in Cuba

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c) overthrow Cuban dictator Fidel Castro

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Dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown by a Cuban communist revolutionary Fidel Castro to take the control of Island. This changed the international situation where a communist neighbor was seen as a threat by the United States. This made the CIA under the order of the U.S president Kennedy to train 1400 Cubans exile who can invade Cuba and take over Castro.

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in 1960, the US government began funding and training a group of about 1400 Cuban exiles to invade Cuba with the purpose of : c. Overthrow Cuban dictator Fidel Castro
Back then, we saw him as a man that could pose as a potential threat for our security


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