De wereld na 1945 § 5.3 de Koude oorlog (Mei 2024)
U-2 Incident, (1960), confrontatie tussen de Verenigde Staten en de Sovjet-Unie die begon met het neerhalen van een Amerikaans U-2 verkenningsvliegtuig boven de Sovjet-Unie en dat de ineenstorting veroorzaakte van een topconferentie in Parijs tussen de Verenigde Staten, de Sovjet-Unie, het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Frankrijk.
Cold War Events
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Truman Doctrine
12 maart 1947
Marshall-plan
April 1948 - december 1951
Berlijnse blokkade
June 24, 1948 - May 12, 1949
Warsaw Pact
May 14, 1955 - July 1, 1991
U-2 Incident
May 5, 1960 - May 17, 1960
Bay of Pigs invasion
April 17, 1961
Berlin crisis of 1961
August 1961
Cuban missile crisis
October 22, 1962 - November 20, 1962
Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty
August 5, 1963
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
1969 - 1979
Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions
October 1973 - February 9, 1989
Korean Air Lines flight 007
September 1, 1983
Reykjavík summit of 1986
October 11, 1986 - October 12, 1986
Collapse of the Soviet Union
August 18, 1991 - December 31, 1991
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On May 5, 1960, the Soviet premier Nikita S. Khrushchev told the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. that an American spy plane had been shot down on May 1 over Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), referring to the flight as an “aggressive act” by the United States.
On May 7 he revealed that the pilot of the plane, Francis Gary Powers, had parachuted to safety, was alive and well in Moscow, and had testified that he had taken off from Peshawar, in Pakistan, with the mission of flying across the Soviet Union over the Aral Sea and via Sverdlovsk, Kirov, Arkhangelsk, and Murmansk to Bodø military airfield in Norway, collecting intelligence information en route. Powers admitted working for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
On May 7 the United States stated that there had been no authorization for any such flight as Khrushchev had described, although a U-2 probably had flown over Soviet territory. The Soviet Union refused to accept that the U.S. government had had no knowledge of the flights and on May 13 sent protest notes to Turkey, Pakistan, and Norway, which in turn protested to the United States, seeking assurances that no U.S. aircraft would be allowed to use their territories for unauthorized purposes. On May 16 in Paris Khrushchev declared that the Soviet Union could not take part in the summit talks unless the U.S. government immediately stopped flights over Soviet territory, apologized for those already made, and punished the persons responsible. The response of Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower, promising to suspend all such flights during the remainder of his presidency, did not satisfy the Soviet Union, and the conference was adjourned on May 17.
Francis Gary Powers was tried (August 17–19) and sentenced to 10 years’ confinement, but he was exchanged for the Soviet spy Rudolf Abel on February 10, 1962.
