U-2 Incident

Two weeks before the US Soviet summit meeting in Paris on May 1, 1960, the U - 2 high altitude reconnaissance plane was shot down during the spy mission against the Soviet Union. Eisenhower administration was obliged to complete its mission, Khrushchev canceled the Paris summit meeting. As a result, the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union lasted more than 30 years. Immediately after the end of the Second World War, the United States and the Soviet Union became two superpowers.

The U - 2 incident (1960), a conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, began with the US U - 2 reconnaissance aircraft shot down by the Soviet Union, and the United Nations Paris Summit, the Soviet Union, the British and the French collapsed I have arrived. On May 7, he revealed that the aircraft pilot Francis Gary Powers was safely parachuting and living in Moscow very well, and he was in charge of flying over the Soviet Union Peshawar in Pakistan It told that he took off from. Information was gathered through Aral Sea and Sverdlovsk, Kirov, Arkhangelsk and Murmansk Alliance to Norway's Bod Military Airport on the way. Bowers admitted to work at the CIA

President Dwight Eisenhower's government wants to avoid conflict with the Soviet Union in the U-2 incident as the possibility of a weapons management agreement was discussed at many years in Paris, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union I will. It is scheduled to start in mid-May. Since 1956 Eisenhower approved the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for the secret intelligence agency flight to the Soviet Union, the US State Department and the White House have developed a series of cover stories after the U - 2 flew over the Soviet Union Without announcing it. . Kremlin treats these cover stories as lies. On May 7, Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union revealed that the Soviet Union owned aircraft, pilots, and the United States, and got a diplomatic victory.