COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Question
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The United States and Soviet Union regularly engaged in direct military combat.
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The alliances of World War II continued throughout the 20th century.
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Cold War confrontations were not limited to events in the United States and Soviet Union.
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The Soviet Union was not successful in spreading communism to other countries.
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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: -The U-2 incident was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union in 1960 and that caused the collapse of a summit conference in Paris between the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France.
Detailed explanation-3: -On May 1, 1960, the pilot of an American U-2 spyplane was shot down while flying though Soviet airspace.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1960, one of the most notorious chapters in the Cold War began after American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down and captured during a spying mission over the Soviet Union.