When such a plane was brought down over the Soviet Union on (1960 U-2 incident) at first the United States government denied the plane's purpose and mission, but was forced to admit its role as a surveillance aircraft when the Soviet government revealed that it had captured the pilot, Gary Powers, alive and was in possession of its largely intact remains. *** I will continue to update my campaigns here as well. committed to remaining closely tied to Pakistan. As such western powers sought to replace Lumumba with a more pro- western leader. Truman proclaimed that the committee was the "most un-American thing in the country today". Just prior to the beginning of the 1960s, Harry S. nuclear strike, and allowed for a competitive advantage in ICBM technology. For the Russians' the launch of Sputnik 1 proved to be a major advantage in the Cold War, because it secured their current leading position in the war, created a retaliation force in the event of a U.S. Found insideWe have also excluded on these grounds the Multinational Force in Iraq (2004–13) and the Ethiopian military campaign to install Somalia's Transitional .
None of these groupings was as successful as NATO had been in Europe. In 1957 the CIA started the programme of reconnaissance flights over the USSR using Lockheed U-2 spyplanes. In August 1957 the Soviet Union tested the world's first successful Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the R7 Semyorka. It was the first time the colloquial term Mauer (wall) had been used in this context.
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