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​U-2 Crisis Luke E. Clark
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 * The U-2 Plane was nicknamed "Dragon Lady"
 * The project for the plane was called "Aquatone"
 * The U-2 Crisis occured during the Cold War
 * [|Dwight D. Eisenhower] gave permission for the U-2 plane to fly over the Soviet Union
 * It first flew on July 4, 1956
 * The objective of this plane was to gather information about the Soviet Union
 * The U-2 plane was accountable for 90% of the hard intelligence of the Soviet Unions said [|Richard Bissell]
 * When the plane was constructed it was to be able to fly high altitudes so that it could not be shot down by enemy aircraft or anti-aircraft
 * The plane could fly thirteen miles in the air (70,000 feet) twice as high as a commercial airliner
 * The information that the plane was gathering convinced Eisenhower that [|Nikita Krushchev] was lying about the number of misseles the Soviet Union had


 * Gary Powers and other pilots had to wear spacesuits and breathe pur oxygen for an hour so they didn't get the bends
 * The pilot of the plane was Gary Powers
 * When the plane was shot down near Svedlovsk, Soviet Union in May, 1960, he was captured
 * When Eisenhower heard about the plane being shot down, the [|Paris Summit] collapse between Eisenhower and Khrushchev
 * He was sentenced 10 years in jail, but later let go after 17 months for a Soviet spy
 * The plane was shot down on May 1st
 * Whenever the plane was shot down, the U.S. government denied that they were spying on the Soviet Union
 * Afterwards President Dwight D. Eisenhower admitted that the U.S. was spying on them about their bombs

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