U-2's?

Something that added to some of the tensions of the war were the U-2 incident. This is a plane that flies at very high altitudes so fighter planes couldnt get them and they could take a lot of pictures of whatever they flew over to see what is going on. This was a issue becuase the United States was flying the U-2's over Cuba to see the missiles and the Soviet Union did not like that. Eisenhower made the propsal of "open skies" and that meant the U.S.A could fly over Soviet Union without getting shot at or harmed. The Soviets rejected that idea and that just shows that they were trying to hide something. The U.S.A had to find out, so they made secret flights and some of them got shoot down sometimes. It scared americans so Eisenhower put a end to it but the U.S.A need only one more flight and a man named Gary Powers was shot down. He was questioned but the Soviets but that was all after Eisenhower said taht they would stop flying the U-2's. That issue right there just made the things worst as you can tell.