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may 1, 1960 - U2 incident

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[what] 2 weeks before Paris conference, USSR shot down US spy plane (U2) over USSR; proved US was spying on Russia (when they said no to open skies policy 1955, US went through w it secretly)
[response] Eisenhower made mistake of admitting it was true → Khrushchev denounced US and walked out of Paris summit

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Date:

may 1, 1960
Now
~ 66 years ago