Geneva Summit (1955)
Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, held on July 18, 1955 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Geneva Summit of 1955 was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Held on July 18, 1955, it was a meeting of "The Big Four": President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States, Prime Minister Anthony Eden of Britain, Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin of the Soviet Union, and Prime Minister Edgar Faure of France.[1] They were accompanied by the foreign ministers of the four powers (who were also members of the Council of Foreign Ministers): John Foster Dulles, Harold Macmillan, Vyacheslav Molotov, and Antoine Pinay. Also in attendance was Nikita Khrushchev, de facto leader of the Soviet Union.
Geneva Summit 1955 | |
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Host country | Switzerland |
Date | July 18, 1955 |
Cities | Geneva |
Participants | Premier Nikolai Bulganin President Dwight D. Eisenhower Prime Minister Edgar Faure Prime Minister Anthony Eden |
Follows | Potsdam Conference |
Precedes | Four Power Paris Summit |
This was the first such meeting since the Potsdam conference ten years earlier.
The purpose was to bring together world leaders to begin discussions on peace.[2] Although those discussions led down many different roads (arms negotiations, trade barriers, diplomacy, nuclear warfare, etc.), the talks were influenced by the common goal for increased global security.[3]