1960 U-2 incident

During the five years from 1955 to 1960, the United States of America developed and utilized U-2 aircraft to scout the military information of the Soviet Union. On May 1st, 1960, Khrushchev issued a decree for the Soviet missile troops to bring down a U-2 aircraft. This event is known as the famous U-2 Incident. Even though this offensive move maintained the sovereignty of the Soviet Union and the dignity of international law, the influence of this incident is far reaching by creating tension…

U-2 Crisis: Escalating Tensions in the Cold War During the Cold War, two countries, the United States (US) and Russia had a meeting in Paris to deal with global problems. These two countries had a bad alliance, but for the sake of dealing with worldwide issues, they tried to be better acquaintances. Unfortunately, on May 1, 1960, the Soviets shot down an American U-2 spy plane, known as the U-2 Crisis. Ultimately, the U-2 Crisis worsened the relationship between the United States and Russia,…

Soviet Union, Team U.S.A managed to beat the U.S.S.R. team in a fierce hockey game during the XIII Winter Olympic Games. Due to the numerous American defeats throughout the entirety of the Cold War, ranging from the conflicts at Vietnam, the U2 incident, and the vast spread of communism, “The Miracle on Ice” boosted American morale towards the fight against the Soviet Union at a time when they needed it most. The XIII Winter Olympic Games took place in Lake Placid, NY. The U.S.A hockey team…

1960 is storming it up in Chile and China as they both deal with drastic storms that lead to many deaths. As we know we have had many presidents before but September 26 is the day we have the first televised presidential debate. An event happened that had the president involved where a U.S. U-2 plane is shot down over Soviet Union. Now as 1960 came along inventions have been made like the laser which is helping many lives in the world right now. Sprite and Domino's Pizza was introduced to the…

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Worth-watching historical movie If anybody thinks historical films are all about boring and wasting time, this movie would change their mind. Bridge of Spy was based on a true story of U-2 incident in 1960. A Soviet spy, Rudoft Abel, was arrested, and James Donovan, an insurrance lawyer at that time, was chosen to be his defender. Francis Gary Power, a pilot of US army, was arrested by the Soviet Union after failing his misson. In the meantime, the young Frederic Pryor, an American college…

another movement in the 1960’s, Betty Friedan was a feminist who wrote The Feminine Mystique and cofounded the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966. Parry (2009) describes “the dissatisfaction they endured as “the problem with no name,” and wrote of its terrible toll on the mental health of American women” (para. 4). Friedan denounced women’s situation in her book, how women relied on their husband’s financially and emotionally. The Second Wave was in the early 1960’s and 1970’s when…

US’ economic and political interest. States’ military force became the most important factor in national security. The Cold War became a concatenation of intimidation and aggravation using increasingly sophisticated nuclear weapon.After the 1960 U-2 incident, US declared Massive Retaliation Doctrine which stated the policy of responding to major soviet attacks with massive retaliation response. Soviet further aggravate by conducting largest ever bombast by detonating “Tsar Bomba” over Novaya…

14 day long standstill during the Cold War. This conflict was between the Soviet Union and the United States of America which almost brought these two countries on the brink of war in the fall of 1962. This crisis started on October 14, 1962 when a U-2 reconnaissance plane returned from a flight over Cuba with pictures of long, canvas-covered objects. Over that next 24 hours American analysts looked at the photograph that these pilots had taken and finally determined that the Soviets were…

After WWII tension between the East and West would intensify following the defeat of Hitler’s Germany as a new struggle for political influence would begin between the US and U.S.S.R. US concerns over Soviet plans for expansion and global influence, along with Russia’s attitude towards the West had raised concerns over any peaceful co-existence that the US may have envisioned. Similar to US concerns, Russian kremlin Joseph Stalin had also viewed the Western world as a threat to the long term…