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Turning point · The Cold War, 1945–1991
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.
This is one scene of Chapter 5 — Coexistence and Its Crises in The Cold War, 1945–1991.
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