Episode 5: The Cold War: Cuba and the Bay of Pigs

Cooper Talks

In this episode we tske a look at how realtions dramatically detriorated at the start if the 1960s. We look breifku at America’s history with Cuba and the Wedteen Hemisphere and how the Cuban Revolution the American response turned Cuba from the American sphere to the Soviet sohere, culminating in the catatrophic Bay of Pigs invasion. These events would olay directly into two major events of thw Cold War; the building if the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis, so this episode should be iseful in providing context for these events.