Question

Why was the Bay of Pigs viewed as an embarrassment by the United States?

a
Florida could not stop the arrival of thousands of Cubans.
b
The United States was forced to cede landholdings in Cuba.
c
The American invasion plot was a total failure.
d
It showed that Havana had surveillance in Washington.

Answer 1

c

The Bay of Pigs invasion (1961) was a CIA-backed attempt to overthrow Castro using Cuban exiles; it failed disastrously, with the invaders defeated and captured, making the Kennedy administration look incompetent and harming U.S. credibility.