The U-2 incident was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union in 1960. The incident caused the collapse of a summit conference in Paris between the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France.
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