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Soviet Union–United States 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 former French consulate and British embassy, called Höfði, was the site of the Reykjavík Summit in 1986. This building stood on a hill overlooking the…
- Tehran ConferenceThe USS Iowa dropped anchor in the Caspian Sea on the 27th of November 1943. President Franklin D. Roosevelt stepped off a plane at Baku and traveled by…
- Strategic Arms Limitation TalksThe Strategic Arms Limitation Talks began in Helsinki on the 17th of November 1969. Gerard C. Smith led the American delegation as director of the Arms…
- Glassboro Summit ConferenceOn the 5th of June 1967, the Six-Day War erupted between Israel and Arab states. This conflict triggered a surge in diplomatic contact between Washington and…
- Malta SummitBrent Scowcroft and other members of the US administration were initially concerned that the proposed Malta Summit would be premature.
- Potsdam ConferenceThe Potsdam Conference opened on the 17th of July 1945 at Cecilienhof in Potsdam, near Berlin. Harry S. Truman had just assumed the presidency after Franklin…
- Yalta ConferenceThe Yalta Conference opened on the 4th of February 1945 inside the Livadia Palace. This grand estate sat near the Black Sea resort town of Yalta in Crimea.
- 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…
- 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.