John F. Kennedy's Cuba Policy. from the Bay of Pigs to the Missile Crisis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karlsson, Håkan.

Series:

Political Science and History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.

Kennedy, John F.

United States--Foreign relations--Cuba.

United States.

Cuba--Foreign relations--United States.

Cuba.

United States--Foreign relations--1961-1963.

Cuba--History--1959-1990.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, 2025.

Summary:

"The book analyzes the U.S. policy toward Cuba adopted by President Kennedy and executed during the two first years of his presidential period (1961-1962). Based in governmental, as well as other, sources from both the U.S. and Cuba, it is stressed that the Kennedy administration inherited the hostile U.S. Cuban policy from the Eisenhower administration and that this manifested itself in the failed U.S. supported invasion at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961. It is shown that after the Bay of Pigs different plans towards Cuba were elaborated within the diplomatic, economic, subversive and military fields, for instance Operation Mongoose, that planned for a direct U.S. military invasion of Cuba in the fall of 1962. It is emphasized that these plans had the same agenda, namely, to overthrow the Cuban revolution, but that they had different mechanisms that implied a dangerous escalation of the problematic relationship between the two nations. It is shown that the Cuban leadership needed to defend the Revolution and the independence of Cuba in the face of these aggressions, and how this led to tighter bands with the USSR. The Cuban leaders accepted the USSR proposal to install nuclear weapons in Cuba, and this led to the Missile Crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war in October 1962. Thus, the book describes the hostile and aggressive policy towards Cuba that was the hallmark of the Kennedy administration's first two years, and the book is unique since it is written from a Cuban perspective that will complement and enrich the knowledge of the U.S.-Cuban relationship during the beginning of the 1960s"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

A Changing World

Abstract

The International Context After the End of World War II

Endnotes

President Kennedy and the Anti-Cuban Legacy of the Eisenhower Administration

The Anti-Cuban Policy of the Eisenhower Administration

Kennedy Occupies the Presidency of the U.S. and Inherits the Plans Against Cuba

The President Receives the First Summary of the Trinidad Plan

From the Trinidad Plan to Operation Zapata

Different Opinions Between the Department of State, the Pentagon, and the CIA

The Zapata Variant Is Approved

Counterrevolutionary Activities in Support of the Invasion

The U.S. Failure at the Bay of Pigs

Cuban Preparations in the Face of U.S. Aggressions

The Launch of Operation Zapata

The Battle at the Bay of Pigs

New Plans Against Cuba and the Cuban Response

Covert, Diplomatic, and Economic Plans

Operation Mongoose and U.S. Military Invasion Plans

The Cuban Response

The Beginning of the Missile Crisis of 1962

Operation Anadyr. Purposes and Decisions

USSR Troops and Nuclear Missiles in Cuba

The Secret and the Deception

The Development and the End of the Crisis

A Dangerous Moment

Cuban Preparations for War

Nuclear War Avoided

The Cuban Defense of Principles

References

Archives

Archive of the FAR Defense Information Center [CID-FAR]

Archive of the Fidel Castro Ruz Center

Archive of the Institute of Cuban History

Archive of the National Museum of the Struggle against Banditry

Archive of the United Nations

CIA

Tomás Diez Acosta, Personal Archive

Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

John F. Kennedy Library.

National Security Archive

Harry S. Truman Library

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of State

U.S. National Archives

U.S. National Defense University

U.S. National Records Center

U.S. Naval Historical Center

Index

Blank Page.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

979-88-95304-73-0

OCLC:

1505894913