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Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
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1947–1991 geopolitical rivalry between US and USSR
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
Failed landing operation of Cuba in 1961
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Cuba
Island country in the Caribbean
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