Saturday, April 17, 2010

U-2 Incident


During the cold war there was a incident called the U-2 incident which meant CIA makes secret flights over the Soviet Union with U-2 to take photos. Later during this time the Soviets began to find out what actually was going on and they saw the U-2 planes flyin over them. Eisenhower wanted to discontinue U-2 to allow for negotiation with Khrushchev. In the end; Fransis Gary Power made one last flight in the U-2 plane in May of 1960. During this flight Power was shot down by soviet pilots and was taken in as a prisioner; but then found out later that the Soviets lyed to us. Then in 1960 Eisenhower took responsibility and Khrushchev left the summit and the tensions got worse in 1960.

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