Transcript East-West Summit Conference

East-West Summit Conference
-Soviet AggressionMeghan Abrahamson
and Sarah Jewell
Period 4
Who
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“The Big Four”
President Dwight D.
Eisenhower
Prime Minister Anthony
Eden of the U.K.
Nikolai A. Bulganin of
the Soviet Union
Prime Minister Edgar
Faure of France
And other participants:
• Foreign Ministers: John
Foster Dulles, Harold
Macmillan, Vyacheslav
Molotov Antoine Pinay
• Nikita Khrushchev of
the Soviet Union
“The Big Four”
Dwight D.
Eisenhower
Anthony Eden
Edgar Faure
Nikolai A. Bulganin
When and Where
• July 18, 1955
• Geneva, Switzerland
Main Point
• “Open Skies”
presented by Eisenhower
- “Open Skies” was a proposal that the U.S. and
the Soviet Union could fly over each other's
territory.
Response to the Proposal
• The Soviet Union rejected the proposal
because they feared that the United States
would take advantage and try to locate where
the Soviets were keeping their weapons
Topics of the Conference
At the conference they also discussed:
• East-West trade agreements
• Tariffs
• Arms race
• International security
• International community
Facts
• The disarmament of weapons of mass
destruction
• First meeting since the Potsdam ten years
earlier
Purpose
• Was to bring the worlds most powerful
political leaders together to discuss peace
• Prevent countries from having mass amounts
of dangerous weapons
• Trade
• Democracy
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