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U-2 Incident
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On May 1, 1960, two weeks prior to the United
States-Soviet Summit in Paris, a U-2 high altitude
reconnaissance airplane was shot down while flying a
spy mission over the Soviet Union. The Eisenhower
administration was forced to own up to the mission,
and Khrushchev canceled the Paris Summit. As a ....
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....peech underscoring the
potential human cost of the Cold War to both sides.
Hoping to strike a more compatible tone with Georgi
Malenkov, Stalin's successor, Eisenhower suggested the
Soviets cease their brazen expansion of territory and
influence in exchange for American cooperation and
goodwill. The Soviets responded coolly to the speech,
especially to the US's insistence on free elections
for German unification, self-determination for Eastern
Europe, and a Korean armistice. The two sides would
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