The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis refer to the same event

a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false


False
RATIONALE: A disastrous effort by Kennedy's administration to overthrow Castro by military force in 1961 is known as the Bay of Pigs invasion. The Cuban Missile Crisis refers to when the Soviet Union began installing nuclear missiles in Cuba that were capable of striking Washington, New York, and other major cities in the eastern United States bringing the two countries dangerously close to nuclear war.

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