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The U-2 is a single engine, very high altitude reconnaissance aircraft made of wafer thin aluminum and equipped with a hi tech camera.
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When did the Cuban missle crisis end?
it was called the 13 Day crisis. it started on 14 October 1961 when American U2 spy planes detected Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile sites in Cuba and ended on the 27th of October when Khrushchev demanded the removal of missiles from Turkey in his second letter.
Name five major events of the Cold War?
1. Korean War 2. NATO 3. Blockade of Berlin 4. propaganda 5. Nuclear Test banned
Where were the missles in the Cuban missle crisis?
A spy plane took a picture of the where the missiles were being stored.
When the Soviet Union shot down the what crisis?
The U2 spy plane with Gary Powers at the controls
What are ten events of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
President Kennedy admitted to lack of missile gap unlike Eisenhower. He said that the US was way ahead of the Soviets in the developing missiles. This made Khrushchev (The Soviet leader) look bad. And this angers Cuba a lot especially, after our failed attempt with the Bay of Pigs. Castro starts to buddy up with the Soviets a lot more. Khrushchev doesn't want to see the US take Cuba down. So he offers to arm Castro with weapons. The US had the Soviet Union surrounded with missile sites and the Soviets wanted at least one site near the US. If they could get Cuba they would have their "one place". A U2 planes discovered installation sites being built in Cuba by the soviets. Kennedy called together the National Security Council, DOD, etc. to discuss what to do with this. We came up with three options. 1)Invade Cuba-Bay of pigs was a failure. 2) Air Strike- were afraid if we did do that ,t hey would shoot our planes3) Leave it alone. No one was really satisfied with those three option so we decided to Quarantine AKA Blockade Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis scared everyone to death; we were on the verge of nuclear war. In 1963 the US and the Soviet Union Signed a nuclear Test Ban Treaty which banned the testing of atomic weapons. A hotline was also set up between Moscow and Washington D.C.
When did the Cuban missle crisis end?
it was called the 13 Day crisis. it started on 14 October 1961 when American U2 spy planes detected Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile sites in Cuba and ended on the 27th of October when Khrushchev demanded the removal of missiles from Turkey in his second letter.
Name five major events of the Cold War?
1. Korean War 2. NATO 3. Blockade of Berlin 4. propaganda 5. Nuclear Test banned
Where were the missles in the Cuban missle crisis?
A spy plane took a picture of the where the missiles were being stored.
What did the Cuban missile crisis achieve?
American U2 planes discovered installation sites being built in Cuba by the soviets. Kennedy called together the National Security Council, DOD, etc. to discuss what to do with this. We came up with three options. 1)Invade Cuba-Bay of pigs was a failure. 2) Air Strike- were afraid if we did do that ,t hey would shoot our planes3) Leave it alone. No one was really satisfied with those three option so we decided to Quarantine AKA Blockade Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis scared everyone to death; we were on the verge of nuclear war. In 1963 the US and the Soviet Union Signed a nuclear Test Ban Treaty which banned the testing of atomic weapons. A hotline was also set up between Moscow and Washington D.C.
When the Soviet Union shot down the what crisis?
The U2 spy plane with Gary Powers at the controls
Where did the name u2 come From?
In the Cold War the American Airforce used an Airplane called a U-2. It was used as a spy plane and could take photos from extreme heights. They were flown many times over Cuba so the Americans had some idea of what the Soviet Union and Cuba were doing in Cuba at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis that nearly ended the world. On May 1st one of these was shot down and was a great embarrassment to America as they had to admit to their surveillance. The Band U2 got it's name from that aircraft.U2 are named after the US Air Force spy plane (still in operation) that was extensively used during the cold war. In the 1960's Captain Gary Powers was flying one over the Soviet Union when he was shot down and imprisoned.It was the name of an American-made spyplane in the 1950's and 1960's....In U2's early stages, there was a friend that was in a band before themselves. They asked him for some band names, and he gave them 6. They chose U2, because apparently it was the best out of all 6. They said that the name didn't pop out at them, it just started to grow on them over time.Ask Bono!
U2 spy plane shot down 1960?
The plane was shot down by a missile on 1st may 1960,over the USSR.
Did Lee Harvey Oswald reveal the u2 flying parameters to the KGB allowing the Russians to hit the u2 with a missile?
I'm sure he probably told them everything he knew, which was out of date and no more than their own radio and radar could tell them. It just took them a while to develop a missile that could reach that high, and Oswald knew nothing about how to do that.
What are ten events of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
President Kennedy admitted to lack of missile gap unlike Eisenhower. He said that the US was way ahead of the Soviets in the developing missiles. This made Khrushchev (The Soviet leader) look bad. And this angers Cuba a lot especially, after our failed attempt with the Bay of Pigs. Castro starts to buddy up with the Soviets a lot more. Khrushchev doesn't want to see the US take Cuba down. So he offers to arm Castro with weapons. The US had the Soviet Union surrounded with missile sites and the Soviets wanted at least one site near the US. If they could get Cuba they would have their "one place". A U2 planes discovered installation sites being built in Cuba by the soviets. Kennedy called together the National Security Council, DOD, etc. to discuss what to do with this. We came up with three options. 1)Invade Cuba-Bay of pigs was a failure. 2) Air Strike- were afraid if we did do that ,t hey would shoot our planes3) Leave it alone. No one was really satisfied with those three option so we decided to Quarantine AKA Blockade Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis scared everyone to death; we were on the verge of nuclear war. In 1963 the US and the Soviet Union Signed a nuclear Test Ban Treaty which banned the testing of atomic weapons. A hotline was also set up between Moscow and Washington D.C.
In 1962 the world learned that had been spotted in Cuba.?
In 1962, the world learned that there was a build up of medium range missiles and missile bases in Cuba. U2 spy planes actually photographed the missiles and the bases.
Who is Gary Powers and how was he involved in the U2 incident?
Francis Gary Powers was the pilot of the Lockheed U2 spy plane that was shot down by the former USSR with a surface to air missile (SAM) in 1960. After lengthy negotiations, a prisoner exchange was made returning Powers to the United States. [JMH]
What was the Cuban missile crisis and how was the crisis resolved?
The issue was that Sebastion Shaw aka Kevin Bacon was trying to rid the world of humans by creting the cuban missile crisis which would launch the u.s and the u.s.s.r into a nuclear war thus destoying the human race as we know it.But luckily Chareles Xiavier and Magneto were able to stop him but then Magneto became batshit crazy and he left with the stripper,Satan,some cool dude with some gnarly hair,and Katniss.Some other people who were involved were winnie the po,Taylor Swifts hot ex,the guy from Hey Arnold and pretty much all the communists.Barney was also involved he was just under the radar
