U-2 incident
1960 · Event
Soviet missiles down a US U-2 spy plane over the USSR; pilot Powers captured.
On these timelines: Master, Cold War, Russia & the USSR, Cuban Missile Crisis
Around 1960
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Korean War (1950)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Suez Crisis (1956)