CAS HI 334 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cuban Missile Crisis, Army Of The Republic Of Vietnam, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Document Summary
Years of crisis: 1958-1962: the crisis years of the early sixties. The soviet union refused to agree to the open skies, seeing it as a violation. Us/ussr: u2 was to fly at such a high altitude over the ussr to take photographs of weapon sites the. Soviet union was aware of the plane but did not want to publicize. Khrushchev denounces it and eisenhower denied the allegations but the pilot of the plane was captured and the u2 survived intact enough that evidence showed that it was a spy plane this was embarrassing for the us. Khrushchev demands a formal apology, punishment of those responsible and a pledge for it to never ever happen again eisenhower refuses. These tensions between the us and the soviet union led to the collapse of the paris summit that had already been arranged. The 1960 elections of kennedy vs. nixon: the first televised debate on september 26, 1960.
