Explain Why Did The Us Invade Grenada

In 1983, just two days after U.S. Marines were killed in Lebanon by a suicide bomber, President Reagan sent 5,000 Marines to Grenada to take over the country from the communists. Grenada had become an independent country in 1974, and was ruled by Prime Minister Sir Eric Gairy until 1979. In this year, attorney Maurice Bishop took over by a basically non-violent coup, and became Prime Minister. Bishop was a socialist and wanted the country to become a socialist country. Even so, the country did extremely well, with things such as an increase in schools, literacy, growth in the economy, and free healthcare. Some evidence of the socialism was the repression of newspapers that opposed the government, the absence of promised free elections, and some political prisoners.
In October of 1983, Bernard Coard led a coup against Bishop, putting him and many leaders who thought like him into prison. After the people freed Bishop, the military attacked them, killed Bishop and two of his officials, and took over the country.
Six days after this, the U.S. sent Marines to invade Grenada, and they quickly took over the country, in only about three days. There were many stated reasons why the U.S. did this, and according to some sources, many of the reasons were not justifiable.
became the refuge for Coard after Bishop’s coup, and refused to give Grenada much help. Thus, Grenada turned to Cuba for help, and this did not help U.S. relations with Grenada at all. Even though Bishop made friendly moves towards the U.S., such as visiting the country, the U.S. did not respond well to these, and President Reagan refused to see Bishop when he visited, and instead the National Security Adviser, William Clark, saw Bishop. In 1981 the U.S. made several moves that foreshadowed the later invasion. One of these was a stage invasion of a small island near Puerto Rico, called Vieques. The invasion was very similar to the later invasion of