Significant1961

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Cuba · Caribbean

Estimated casualties

3.0Ksingle estimate · no range published

Failed US-backed invasion attempt to overthrow Cuban government.

Belligerents2

United States
Cuba

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 1

Battle of Bay of Pigs1961

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1961 and opens this record.

Cite as: Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/bay-of-pigs-invasion · Sources & methodology