The U-2 Incident occurred in 1960 during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower. On May 1 of that year, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet airspace, leading to heightened tensions in the Cold War. The incident complicated U.S.-Soviet relations and occurred just before a scheduled summit between Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
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