Curated category
20th-century diplomatic conferences
- Governors Island SummitRonald Reagan met Mikhail Gorbachev on Governors Island during the final days of 1988. The date marked December 7, a time when Cold War tensions still hung…
- Washington Summit (1987)The Washington Summit of 1987 took place on the 8th of December 10 between United States president Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.
- 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.
- G8A 1975 summit hosted by France brought together representatives of six governments: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
- 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 began its planning in May 1985 when Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko approached U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz during…
- 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 first large-scale Asian, African Conference took place on the 18th of April 1955 in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Twenty-nine countries participated…
- Moscow Summit (1988)The summit took place from the 29th of May to the 2nd of June in 1988. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met in Moscow during this period.