Cold War summits
February 1945,
Yalta Conference
July-August 1945,
Potsdam
Conference
July 1955, Geneva
Summit
May 1960, Paris
Summit
June 1961, Vienna
Summit
June 1979, Vienna
Roosevelt, Stalin & Churchill
Agreements on among other aspects the
setting up of the UN, the division of Berlin &
Germany, free elections for Eastern
European countries and help from the USSR
in fighting Japan
Truman, Stalin & Attlee
Agreements among other items on the
Western borders of Poland, the zones of
occupation in Germany were established,
Nazi war-criminals were to be put on trial and
USSR given permission to take reparations.
Truman had secretly been testing the atomic
bomb.
Eisenhower, Krushchev & Eden
Issue of German reunification raised, which
Russia accepted as long as German
remained neutral. Khrushchev suggested the
dismantling of NATO & Warsaw Pact.
Eisenhower called for ‘Open Skies’ policy
Eisenhower & Khrushchev
Abandoned after U2 spy plane crisis
Kennedy & Khrushchev
Negotiations between US and USSR were
tense with either side trying to gain the upper
hand, Kennedy later confessed that
Khrushchev ‘beat the hell out of me’
Carter & Brezhnev
Details of SALT II treaty, negotiated at
Vladivostok Summit in 1974 between Ford &
Brezhnev ironed-out
November 1985,
Geneva Summit
October 1986,
Reykjavik Summit
December 1987,
Washington
Summit
May-June 1988,
Moscow Summit
December 1989,
Malta Summit
Reagan & Gorbachev
Reagan and Gorbachev met. The summit
helped establish a rapport between the two
leaders even if little of substance was
achieved
Reagan & Gorbachev
Gorbachev proposed phasing out nuclear
weapons in return for US abandonment of
SDI
Reagan & Gorbachev
INF (Intermediate Nuclear Forces) agreement
signed scrapping intermediate-range ballistic
missiles.
Reagan & Gorbachev
Details of the earlier INF agreement were
ironed-out. Followed-up later in the year with
a meeting in New York where further cuts in
Soviet arms were announced.
Bush & Gorbachev
No new agreements but Soviet foreign
secretary, Shevardnadze announced the
superpowers had ‘buried the Cold War at the
bottom of the Mediterranean’