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20th-century diplomatic conferences

  • Governors Island SummitThe Governors Island Summit met on the 7th of December, 1988, and it would not go the full distance. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev were at its center.
  • Washington Summit (1987)The Washington Summit of 1987 brought Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev together for three days in December at the White House.
  • Reykjavík SummitThe Reykjavík Summit, held on the 11th and the 12th of October 1986, came within a single word of ending the nuclear age.
  • Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)The Paris Peace Conference opened on the 18th of January 1919 at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. That date was chosen deliberately.
  • G8On the 24th of March 2014, the G8 effectively ceased to exist. Seven governments cancelled a planned summit in the Russian city of Sochi and suspended…
  • Munich Security ConferenceThe Munich Security Conference began in 1963 with about 60 people crowded into a room, among them a young Helmut Schmidt and an even younger Henry Kissinger.
  • 1972 visit by Richard Nixon to ChinaRichard Nixon's 1972 visit to China lasted exactly seven days, from the 21st to the 28th of February, yet it broke twenty-three years of frozen silence…
  • Geneva Summit (1985)The Geneva Summit of 1985 brought Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev face to face for the first time on the 19th of November, 1985, in a lakeside villa…
  • Bretton Woods ConferenceIn the summer of 1944, with the outcome of World War II still uncertain, 730 delegates from 44 allied nations gathered at the Mount Washington Hotel in…
  • G7The G7, the Group of Seven, began not in a grand hall of international diplomacy but in a library. On the 25th of March 1973, George Shultz, the United…
  • Bandung ConferenceThe Bandung Conference opened in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, on the 18th of April 1955, and it ran for six days, closing on the 24th.
  • Moscow Summit (1988)The Moscow Summit brought Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev together in the Soviet capital from the 29th of May to the 2nd of June, 1988.