COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -United States aircraft U-2 was shot down on May 1, 1960, over Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), U.S.S.R.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -On May 1, 1960, a U-2 flight piloted by Francis Gary Powers disappeared while on a flight over Russia.
Detailed explanation-4: -Powers made a nine-hour jaunt into Soviet airspace to take photos of missile and nuclear sites. It was a routine mission-his 28th in the U-2-but it would also be his last. Though neither he nor the CIA knew it, the spy plane menace encouraged the Russians to develop more effective surface-to-air missiles.