An American U2 spy plane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet Surface to Air missile.  The tension between the United States and the Soviet Union increases but President Kennedy decides not to bomb Cuba.  He uses a message from the Soviet leader to end the crisis and the Soviet nuclear missiles are withdrawn from Cuba.

An American U2 spy fight discovered Soviet missiles in Cuba.  The American military chiefs wanted an invasion of Cuba but President Kennedy decides above a naval blockade of Cuba instead.  President Kennedy address the nation on television to tell them of the Soviet missiles now based in Cuba.

The Soviets send nuclear weapons and fifty thousand military personal to Cuba, all without being observed by the Americans.  The Soviet nuclear missiles pose a serious danger to the United States.  A biography of the Soviet military commander in Cuba, General Pliev.  In October 1963, an American U2 flight will plunge the world into crisis.

Cuban exiles with the secret support of the American Government would in 1961, attempt a landing on the south coast of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.  The invasion was crushed by the Cuban Army, President Kennedy would not allow the American military to become directly involved, although the American Government involvement soon became known. 

When Fidel Castro took power in Cuba in 1959, his mask of being a liberal and a democrat fell.  There would be no free elections in Cuba.  Those who had fought in the Cuban revolution for a free and democratic Cuba would become the victims of repression, imprisonment and execution, another revolution was eating its children.