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The Invasion of Grenada, known to U.S. forces as Operation Urgent Fury, was an invasion of the island nation of Grenada by the military forces of the United States and several Caribbean nations. On October 25, 1983, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was executed by Bernard Coard's communist sect, the United States armed forces landed troops on the beaches of Grenada.
Background
In 1979, a bloodless coup d'état, led by New Jewel Movement leader Maurice Bishop, toppled the government of Eric Gairy to establish a Marxist-Leninist government that quickly aligned itself with the Soviet Union and Cuba. Under Bishop, Grenada began constructing an international airport with the help of Cuba. U.S. President Ronald Reagan pointed to this airport and several other sites as evidence of the potential threat posed by Grenada towards the United States. Reagan accused Grenada of constructing facilities to aid a Soviet-Cuban military build-up in the Caribbean and of greatly militarizing a country that had previously maintained a relatively small army.
On October 13, 1983, a faction led by the strongly pro-Soviet Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard seized power; Coard's forces subsequently executed Bishop in spite of mass protests in Bishop's favor. The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) appealed to the United States, Barbados, and Jamaica to assist them, though according to the prime ministers of Barbados and Jamaica, this formal appeal was privately requested by the United States.
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