... . The bombing would be done by Cuban pilots in Cuban planes, so Castro would not expect an invasion from the United States (Schlesinger 270). On Sunday, April 16, 1961, Cuban planes bombed the Bay of Pigs beachhead for the second day in a row. Castro suspected an attack on Cuba and declared ... a social revolution, many Cubans expected an attack to be made, and many parades were held in the streets (Crassweller 23). Late Sunday night, on April 16, American frogmen began marking invasion points on the shore so the planes and troops knew where to attack. As they marked ... connections was...

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... , nuclear war could not have been avoided. The United States demonstrated that by a show of military power they could force another country to back down, thereby avoiding nuclear war. The Cuban Missile Crisis entailed a necessary show of force by the United States (Thomson 339). In the ... Cuba. The fifth option entailed a series of air strikes, where the United States would take out known missile bases in Cuba, thereby taking away the nuclear capability. The final option was a large-scale invasion of Cuba, where the United States would invade Cuba and manually destroy ... of the crisis....

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