The Soviets shot down a U-2 piloted by Francis Gary Powers inside the Soviet Union. The crisis disrupted talks between Eisenhower and Kruchev,
The U2 spy plane with Gary Powers at the controls
Cuba usa and Russia
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French economic crisis.
Soviets were establishing nuclear missile sites in Cuba.
The U2 spy plane with Gary Powers at the controls
Premier Nikita Khrushchev was the leader of the USSR in 1962.
Potential for nuclear war against the USSR in 1950.
nikita kruschev
The plane was shot down by a missile on 1st may 1960,over the USSR.
The berlin wall becoming unguarded and the cuban missile crisis: the cuban missile crisis threat the allies of ussr because the communits types.
USSR was placing IRBMs with nuclear warheads in Cuba.
Cuba usa and Russia
A NATIONWIDE crisis?? !!! Probably not.
The USA and USSR had enough missiles to destroy the world over and over. It was the closest the world has ever come to World War Three!
President John F. Kennedy was in power in the US.Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was in power in the USSR.
The Cuban Missile Crisis almost caused a nuclear war, but fortunately neither the US nor the USSR actually wanted to fight one.