When the Soviet Union shot down a U-2 aircraft over its country, the incident
a. gave Nikita Khrushchev the pretext he needed to break off the Paris summit discussions concerning Berlin.
b. proved to Washington that the Soviets were willing to shoot down unarmed passenger aircraft.
c. provided evidence of the superiority of United States technology over that of the Soviets.
d. allowed Eisenhower to refuse to go to Geneva for a summit meeting on the issue of Austria. e.
allowed for United Nations intervention.
ANS: A
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