President kennedy's first months in office were stained by what foreign-policy disaster? a) the my lai massacre b) the suez canal crisis in egypt c) an escalation of us forces in vietnam d) cia-backed rebels were defeated in cuba at the bay of pigs

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D) CIA-backed rebels were defeated in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.

On the Bay of Pigs Invasion (April 1961) fifteen hundred U.S. trained Cubans landed on the island to instigate an uprising among the Cuban people, hoping to remove Castro from power.

The Cuban government apprehended or killed the invading exiles, and Kennedy was obliged to negotiate for the liberation of survivors. Eventually, Cuba freed the captured exiles in exchange for $53 million worth of food and medicine.

the answer is use of support