Offensive Soviet missiles in Cuba were just one of the causes
of Cold War tensions between the U.S. and Soviet Union in the 1960s.
Here Ambassador Adlai Stevenson displays photos of Soviet missiles to the United Nations.
(Source:Wikimedia Commons--public domain)
Question 01003:
What 1960 Cold War incident proved embarrassing for the U.S. and led to the release of a Soviet spy?
(A) building of the Berlin Wall
(B) launching of Sputnik
(C) a Richard Nixon-Nikita Khrushchev "kitchen" argument in Moscow
(D) the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 spy plane captained by Francis Gary Powers
(E) the Bay of Pigs invasion
What 1960 Cold War incident proved embarrassing for the U.S. and led to the release of a Soviet spy?
(A) building of the Berlin Wall
(B) launching of Sputnik
(C) a Richard Nixon-Nikita Khrushchev "kitchen" argument in Moscow
(D) the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 spy plane captained by Francis Gary Powers
(E) the Bay of Pigs invasion