The Bay of Pigs Invasion, or Batalla de Girón, was a failed military invasion of Cuba sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to train and arm a group of counter-revolutionary Cuban exiles to overthrow Fidel Castro on 17 April 1961.

Operation Peter Pan, or Operación Pedro Pan, was a mass exodus of over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban minors to the United States between 1960 and 1962.