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List of Soviet Union–United States summits

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Moscow Summit (1988) postage stamps,Spasskaya Tower and handshake

Soviet Union–United States summits were held from 1943 to 1991. The topics discussed at thesummits between thepresident of the United States and either thegeneral secretary or thepremier of the Soviet Union ranged from fighting theAxis powers duringWorld War II toarms control between the twosuperpowers themselves during theCold War.[1]

World War II / Allies of World War II

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Main articles:Allies of World War II andList of Allied World War II conferences
The "Big Three" Allied leaders (left to right) at theYalta Conference, February 1945:Winston Churchill,Franklin D. Roosevelt andJoseph Stalin.
Clement Attlee,Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at thePotsdam Conference, July 1945.
DatePlaceCountryPresident of the United StatesGeneral Secretary orPremier of the Soviet UnionNotes
November 28–December 1, 1943TehranIran[2]Franklin D. RooseveltJoseph Stalin
Main article:Tehran Conference

Held at the Soviet Embassy in Tehran. Also in attendancePrime MinisterWinston Churchill of theUnited Kingdom. Ended with the Western Allies committing themselves to open asecond front againstNazi Germany through the plannedamphibious invasion of Normandy. They also agreed to provide full support to theYugoslav Partisans over theChetniks. In return, the Soviet Union agreed to support the creation of theUnited Nations after the war and eventually enter theAllied campaign against Japan. They also agreed todivide Germany into occupation zones and recognize Iran as an independent state after the war.

February 4–11, 1945YaltaSoviet Union[2]
Main article:Yalta Conference

Held at theLivadia Palace. Also in attendance Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom. First visit by a United States President to the Soviet Union.[3] Produced declaration calling for the formation of democratic institutions in Europe after the war while dividing Germany andBerlin into American, British, French, and Soviet zones of occupation. Imposedreparations,denazification, anddemilitarization on postwar Germany. Obtained Western recognition ofSoviet puppet government in Poland. Obtained Soviet commitment to enter the United Nations in exchange for allowing all 16Soviet Socialist Republics membership. Mandatedtrials forNazi war criminals after the war.

July 17–August 2, 1945PotsdamAllied-occupied Germany[4]Harry S. Truman
Main article:Potsdam Conference

Held at theCecilienhof Palace. Also in attendance Prime Ministers Winston Churchill andClement Attlee of the United Kingdom, with a switch caused by theLabour Party's victory in the1945 general election. Planned for the postwar order and terms of peace treaties after World War II. Mandated complete abolition of Nazi political institutions and laws in Germany, initiateddemocratization reforms, and planneddismantlement of industry. Set theOder-Neisse line as the western border of Poland and Germany. Allowedexpulsions of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe. Created conditions which allowed the Soviet Union to establishsatellite states inEastern Europe after the war.

Cold War

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Cold War (1953–1962)

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Main article:Cold War (1953–1962)
Nikita Khrushchev meetingJohn F. Kennedy at theVienna Summit, June 1961
DatePlaceCountryPresident of the United StatesGeneral Secretary or Premier of the Soviet UnionNotes
July 18–23, 1955Geneva  Switzerland[5]Dwight D. EisenhowerNikita Khrushchev andNikolai Bulganin

Also in attendance Prime MinisterAnthony Eden of the United Kingdom andPrime MinisterEdgar Faure ofFrance. First Four-Power conference since World War II. It was intended to reduce rising international tensions during theCold War, and included discussions oftrade policy, thenuclear arms race, anddisarmament. Failed to achieve settlement onGerman reunification due to Western refusal to withdrawWest Germany fromNATO.

September 15 and 27, 1959Washington, D.C., andCamp DavidUnited States[6][7]Nikita Khrushchev

First visit by a Soviet leader to the United States.

May 16–17, 1960ParisFrance[5]Also in attendance Prime MinisterHarold Macmillan of the United Kingdom andPresidentCharles de Gaulle of France. Khrushchev left the summit due to the dispute over the1960 U-2 incident.
June 3–4, 1961ViennaAustria[8]John F. Kennedy
Main article:Vienna Summit

Convened after the botchedBay of Pigs invasion and theBerlin Crisis. Achieved a settlement on theLaotian Civil War but failed to achieve final settlement regarding the status of Berlin. The breakdown of the conference contributed to a more hardline American stance towards the Soviet Union.

Cold War (1962–1979)

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Main article:Cold War (1962–1979)
Alexei Kosygin with U.S. PresidentLyndon B. Johnson at the summit
Leonid Brezhnev meets withRichard Nixon during the Soviet leader's trip to the U.S. in June 1973
Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev signingSALT II Treaty, June 18, 1979, inVienna
DatePlaceCountryPresident of the United StatesGeneral Secretary or Premier of the Soviet UnionNotes
June 23 and 25, 1967GlassboroUnited States[6]Lyndon B. JohnsonAlexei Kosygin

Held atHollybush Mansion inGlassboro State College. Convened due to the intensifyingVietnam War and theSix-Day War. Failed to reach concrete agreements but resulted in improvedSoviet Union–United States relations and the period ofdétente

May 22–30, 1972MoscowSoviet Union[9]Richard NixonLeonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin

First visit by an American head of state to the Soviet Union since World War II. Held at theKremlin Palace. Signing of theAnti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, the firstStrategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I), and theU.S.–Soviet Incidents at Sea Agreement. The treaties limited strategic nuclear weapons and specificallyanti-ballistic missiles

June 18–25, 1973Washington, D.C.United States[6]

Signing of theAgreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War at theWhite House.

June 28–July 3, 1974MoscowSoviet Union[9]Leonid Brezhnev

Ended in the signing of theThreshold Test Ban Treaty limitingnuclear weapons tests.

November 23–24, 1974VladivostokSoviet Union[10]Gerald Ford

Held at the Okenskaya Sanitorium. Ended in agreement establishing parity for strategic nuclear delivery vehicles, includingintercontinental ballistic missiles andsubmarine-launched ballistic missiles withmultiple independently targetable reentry vehicles

July 30 and August 2, 1975HelsinkiFinland[10]
Main article:Helsinki Accords

Final phase of theConference on Security and Co-operation in Europe. Established theOrganization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and theMoscow Helsinki Group. Included commitments from the United States, the Soviet Union, and most of Europe to support their territorial integrity

June 15–18, 1979ViennaAustria[11]Jimmy CarterSigning of the secondStrategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II) at theHofburg Palace.

Cold War (1985–1991)

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Main article:Cold War (1985–1991)
Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan sign theINF Treaty at theWhite House in December 1987
George H. W. Bush andMikhail Gorbachev at theHelsinki summit in 1990
DatePlaceCountryPresident of the United StatesGeneral Secretary or Premier of the Soviet UnionNotes
November 19–21, 1985Geneva  Switzerland[12]Ronald ReaganMikhail Gorbachev

First international summit between American and Soviet heads of state since the end of détente. Failed to produce agreements due to the American refusal to abandon theStrategic Defense Initiative but ended in improved American-Soviet relations.

October 11–12, 1986ReykjavíkIceland[12]
Main article:Reykjavík Summit

Held atHöfði House. Nearly achieved agreement on bilateralnuclear disarmament but suddenly collapsed due to the American refusal to abolish the SDI. Nevertheless resulted in major diplomatic gains between the United States and the Soviet Union

December 8–10, 1987Washington, D.C.United States[6]

Ended in the signing of theIntermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty limitingshort-range andintermediate-range ballistic missiles. Also included discussions on conventional and chemical weapons; human rights; andproxy conflicts in theThird World.

May 29–June 3, 1988MoscowSoviet Union[12]

Held in theKremlin Palace. Continued negotiations on topics from the Washington Summit and produced a joint statement on arms control.

December 7, 1988New York CityUnited States[6]

Held onGovernors Island. Also in attendancePresident-electGeorge H. W. Bush. Gorbachev left the summit early due to the1988 Spitak earthquake which struck theArmenian S.S.R. that same day.

December 2–3, 1989VallettaMalta[13]George H. W. Bush
Main article:Malta Summit

Conference convened several weeks after theMonday demonstrations and thefall of the Berlin Wall endingMarxist-Leninist rule inEast Germany. Held aboard the Soviet cruise shipSSMaxim Gorkiy. Conference ended with a symbolic declaration that the Cold War had ended.

May 30–June 3, 1990Washington, D.C.United States[6]

Signing of the1990 Chemical Weapons Accord.

September 9, 1990HelsinkiFinland[13]

Discussed theIraqi invasion of Kuwait andGerman reunification.[14]

November 19, 1990ParisFrance[13]Signing of theTreaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
July 17, 1991LondonUnited Kingdom[13]Held in conjunction with the17th G7 Summit.
July 30–31, 1991MoscowSoviet Union[13]Signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I).
October 29–30, 1991MadridSpain[13]Held in conjunction with theMadrid Conference of 1991 at theRoyal Palace of Madrid, which also included Israeli Prime MinisterYitzhak Shamir. Final meeting between American and Soviet heads of state due to thedissolution of the Soviet Union and the transfer of power to PresidentBoris Yeltsin of the newRussian Federation in December 1991.

See also

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References

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  1. ^Fain III, W. Taylor"Chronology: US-Soviet summits, 1943-1991"Archived 2011-11-09 at theWayback MachineUS Department of State Dispatch, August 12, 1991
  2. ^ab"Travels of President Franklin D. Roosevelt". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived fromthe original on 2011-11-09.
  3. ^"Presidents Travels to Russia". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.Archived from the original on 2012-01-31.
  4. ^"Travels of President Harry S. Truman". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived fromthe original on 2011-11-09.
  5. ^ab"Travels of President Dwight D. Eisenhower". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived fromthe original on 2011-12-05.
  6. ^abcdef"Visits By Foreign Leaders of Russia". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.Archived from the original on 2011-11-09.
  7. ^"1959 Year In Review Khrushchev Visits the United States".United Press International.Archived from the original on 2012-01-06.
  8. ^"Travels of President John F. Kennedy". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived fromthe original on 2011-11-09.
  9. ^ab"Travels of President Richard M. Nixon". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.Archived from the original on 2011-11-09.
  10. ^ab"Travels of President Gerald R. Ford". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.Archived from the original on 2011-11-09.
  11. ^"Travels of President Jimmy Carter". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived fromthe original on 2011-12-06.
  12. ^abc"Travels of President Ronald Reagan". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived fromthe original on 2011-11-09.
  13. ^abcdef"Travels of President George H. W. Bush". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Archived fromthe original on 2011-11-09.
  14. ^"Joint News Conference of President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in Helsinki, Finland September 9, 1990". The American Presidency Project.Archived from the original on October 2, 2012.

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