Dwight D Eisenhower
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Your mom happened!
1960.
pounding the podium with his shoe
idk what U2 your referring to but im going to gues its the U2 incident durring the cold war. The U2 was a spy plane piloted by Frances Gary Powers that went down over Soviet Russia.
The U2 incident was where A united States spy plane was shot down over Russia. The pilot was Gary Powers and he was captured by the Russians, who used this to embarass the US.
Congress denied President Wilson the right to do what with merchant ships?
The U2 incident in May 1960, when an American spy plane was shot down over Soviet airspace, significantly heightened tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The incident exposed U.S. espionage activities and led to a breakdown in a planned summit between President Eisenhower and Premier Khrushchev, worsening diplomatic relations. It also fueled anti-American sentiment in the USSR and reinforced the perception of the U.S. as a threat, contributing to an arms race and further ideological conflict.
At first President Eisenhower denied the U-2 plane's purpose (which was espionage) but then had to admit it was a spy plane when the USSR showed photos of Russian military bases taken by the plane. The pilot was imprisoned in Russia for two years, and the incident embarrassed the U.S. causing a cooling in USSR relations.
No, Al Gore was denied the presidency.
Pres. Richard Nixon denied something that he later admitted was true and his fault.
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]