The purpose of class twenty is to examine the Bay of Pigs operation and then the Cuban Missile Crisis. What happened at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, and what were some of its consequences? We will next explore how the world’s most dangerous crisis came about, and how exactly it got resolved, averting the threat of a nuclear holocaust. What drove the Soviet effort to implant nuclear arms in Cuba? What options for resolution presented themselves? What diplomatic efforts occurred at the brink of catastrophe, and what occurred after the crisis? What was the importance of John Kennedy as an American foreign policymaker? What, in particular, is he remembered for? Did he have foreign policy triumphs? Flaws?