Cuban Missile Crisis part three

Tensions mount even higher when an American U2 spy planes was shot down over Cuba by a Soviet Surface to Air Missile unit. However President Kennedy decides not to increase the military pressure, by launching bombing attacks on Soviet Surface to Air missile bases in Cuba. Instead Kennedy seize on a more comprising message from the Soviet leader, to suggest a deal to end the Cuban Missile Crisis.

To be published on Saturday 30th December

Cuban Missile Crisis part two

An American U2 spy plane takes pictures of a Soviet missile base in Cuba. President Kennedy, his advisors, his military chiefs meet to decided what to do, some press for an American invasion of Cuba. However Presidents Kennedy decides on a naval blockade of Cuba, any military cargo will be turned back. President Kennedy goes on American television to tell the America people of the threat posed Soviet missiles in Cuba.

To be published on Saturday 23rd December

Cuban Missile Crisis part one

The background to the Cuban Missile of 1962. Why the Soviet Union decided to place nuclear missiles in Cuba and why Fidel Castro agreed to this. Those missiles would place the United States under threat of nuclear attack. However at first the Soviets kept the secret of transfer of the missile to Cuba from the United States yet could only be a matter of time before it became known.

To be published on Saturday 16th December

Bay of Pigs

The American CIA fund the training of 1,500 anti Communist Cuban rebels to invade Cuba and began a counter revolution against the Government of Fidel Castro in 1961. The invasion is a fiasco, as the Cuban exiles are pinned down by the Cuban Army, President Kennedy refuses to allow American warships and planes use their powerful in support of the Cuban exiles, who are captured.

To be published on Saturday 9th December