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On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory.
19 iul. 2024 · U-2 Incident (May 1960), confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union and that caused the collapse of a summit conference in Paris between the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France.
Incidentul cu avionul de spionaj american U-2 din 1960 a avut loc în timpul Războiului Rece la data de 1 mai 1960, în timpul mandatului președintelui american Dwight Eisenhower, premier al Uniunii Sovietice fiind Nikita Hrușciov, când deasupra URSS artileria antiaeriană sovietică a doborât cu rachetă un avion de spionaj al Statelor ...
9 nov. 2009 · An international diplomatic crisis erupted in May 1960 when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot, Francis...
The U-2 Incident was a confrontation in 1960 between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union and caused the collapse of a summit conference in Paris. The pilot was sentenced to 10 years’ confinement, but he was exchanged for a Soviet spy in 1962.
Learn how a U-2 spyplane pilot was shot down and captured by the Soviets, leading to the cancellation of the Paris Summit and the breakdown of détente. Find out how the U-2 program, the Paris Summit, and the Cold War were affected by the incident.
The shooting down of Gary Powers in the U-2 incident of 1960 disastrously escalated tensions between the US and USSR. And two years later, another U-2 was shot down over Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, bringing the world closer than ever before on all out nuclear war.
