Cold War Tensions Part 4: U2
The United States is very curious about what is going on over in the USSR, so President Eisenhower asks Khrushchev (the Soviet's leader) if we can have "open skies". This would be both countries can fly over the other country at any time. But, of course Khrushchev says no. So we decided to be sly and go over there anyway. The first few times we did not get caught. Secretly the USSR officials new about our spies. Even at get togethers the knew, but would not say. This made very awkward conversation! Finally after a while of spying the Soviet's shot down our man, Francis Gary Powers. So now the USSR had proof that we were spying on them. They confront us and Eisenhower tried to make amends, and apologize.
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