Cold War · TURNING POINT ·
U-2 incident (1960)
On the Cold War map as “U-2 down over Sverdlovsk”
1 May 1960 — A missile finally reaches the “untouchable” spy plane; pilot Francis Gary Powers is paraded before cameras. Two weeks later the Paris summit collapses on its opening morning, Khrushchev demanding an apology Eisenhower will not give.
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- Turning point
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- Hungary 1956 and the Berlin Wall (chapter 5 of Cold War)
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- The Cold War, 1945–1991
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