USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -At the height of the cold war, as critics of the Eisenhower administration complained about the growing “missile gap, ” the United States secretly gathered data on Soviet missile capabilities through photographs obtained from U-2 reconnaissance plane overflights of the Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: The Cold War thaw was the gradual de-escalation of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. The thaw began with the death of Stalin in 1953. Khrushchev took over and relaxed some of the repressive practices of Stalin.

Detailed explanation-3: -The original consensus about the cause of the U-2 incident was that the spy plane had been shot down by one of a salvo of 14 Soviet SA-2 missiles.

Detailed explanation-4: -How might the Cold War have progressed if the U-2 incident had never occurred? There was great trust between the U.S. and Soviet Union prior to the incident and if it hadn’t happened, they might have taken steps to resolve their differences.