McCARTHY, UPI Writer Cuban revolutionaries invaded their island ... never planned to provide air cover for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.He also told a news conference that continuous ...

UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa Berlin Wall is built, dividing East and West Germany American-backed Cuban exiles fail in an attempt to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of Cold War tension in Europe. America and the Soviet Union were competing in the ...

During the recent crisis the DRE was again in the news. Its newsletter issued early last week purported to pinpoint the size and location of Russian missile ... at the Bay of Pigs because of ...

It was Christmas Eve when the 18-year-old finally was coming home from Cuba. He and his father had been imprisoned there for ...

In 1962, the failed Bay of Pigs ... to end the crisis. As we quibble with China over one small missile system in our midst, ...

Over the past 80 years, the threat of such nuclear annihilation was perhaps never greater than during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 ... Castro and his communist ruling party. Known as the Bay of ...

According to his critics, Jimmy Carter was a humanitarian president and a weak leader. He faced enormous challenges that were nearly impossible to resolve through humanitarian policies: the Soviet ...

Here's a look at key events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis and what unfolded. » VIDEO PREVIEW: Leadership in a nuclear world [opens in a new window] Key players: Cuban leader Fidel Castro ...

Promising a new generation of leadership, John F. Kennedy stated he would guide the nation out of the so-called “conservative rut.” Challenges: The arms race with the Soviet Union continued and ...

beach where the Army's Hawk anti-aircraft missiles were positioned during the Cuban missile crisis ... Known as the Bay of Pigs invasion, its failure proved to be a major embarrassment for ...